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ANTI AVOIDANCE


‘[George Osborne] described “aggressive” tax avoidance as “morally repugnant”. He was right to do so ... ‘[Cameron and Osborne] need to see through the logic of what they have started.

Setting up a company specifically to avoid tax is ‘aggressive tax avoidance’ and should be distinguished from investment in pensions or genuine start-up businesses, the Prime Minister suggested today.

Coverage in the ‘quality’ newspapers of last week’s well-attended launch of the CBI’s tax campaign appears to have been l

The question whether business pays its ‘fair share’ of tax is a perfectly legitimate one that deserves a good answer, John Cridland said at the launch of a CBI campaign to bring ‘an informed voice’ to the UK business tax debate.

‘Is the government tough on avoidance? It has produced a report on an anti-avoidance rule. Who did it ask to develop this – a member of HMRC perhaps, or a barrister used by HMRC to combat avoidance?

A special low rate of UK corporation tax on finance profits from overseas financing within multinational groups will offer a ‘very significant’ benefit to groups setting up a structure that represents, according to a leading tax expert, ‘almost government-approved tax avoidance’.

‘Internet giants avoided about £650m in UK corporation tax in 2010 by legally taking payments via offshore companies, according to analysis by Financial Mail. The research into the tax paid by Apple, Amazon, Google, eBay and Facebook will reignite...
‘The brouhaha about George Osborne’s plan to cap tax relief for charitable giving is a textbook case of how ill-informed emotion can derail intelligent policy-making. The chancellor wants an annual limit of £50,000 or a quarter of the donor’s income,...

Aaronson found that among tax representative bodies there was 'unanimous disapproval, indeed distaste, for egregious tax avoidance schemes'.

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