Wealthy homebuyers have already found ‘loopholes’ to avoid paying the new top rate of stamp duty land tax, the Financial Times reported at the weekend.
‘George Osborne was left “shocked” after an analysis of the tax returns of multi-millionaires which he personally ordered found that they are exploiting loopholes to pay little or nothing at all.
George Osborne told journalists earlier this week that he ‘candidly conveyed’ to the Indian government his concerns over proposed changes to India’s tax code that could reopen a $2.9bn dispute with Vodafone.
Any bank told that HMRC considers it has not complied with the Code of Practice on Taxation for Banks will be expected to acknowledge HMRC’s view in any public pronouncements that the bank makes on its operation of the code, according to a new ‘
‘It looks to me like the triumph of big business – or rather the triumph of the Treasury's view of what big businesses need and want.
Companies should pay a fair rate of tax and ‘move vigorously towards the path of transparency’, the Labour peer and former newspaper publisher Lord Hollick told tax experts earlier this month, as campaigners renewed calls for country by country reporting (CBCR) by multinationals and claimed that
A targeted anti-avoidance rule intended to counter arrangements to secure a tax advantage in the transition to a new regime for life insurance companies will take effect from 21 March 2012 ‘because there is a significant risk to tax revenue arising from the transition’.
New legislation will address income tax avoidance under the ‘chargeable event’ regime ‘by putting beyond doubt that gains liable to income tax are not reduced where there are certain untaxed gains earlier in the life of the policy or contract, or by the use of certain cluster policy arrangements’
Proposed amendments to CAA 2001 will ensure that rules for calculating the lessee’s disposal value at the end of a long funding lease ‘operate as intended so that the relief available by way of capital allowances does not exceed the net expenditure of the lessee not otherwise relieved’.