Sentences with phrase «against tax avoidance»

It should be noted that when it comes to the battle against tax avoidance, the Government is on the front foot and the tax courts have become very pro-HMRC in the past few years.

«Purposive Interpretation as a Weapon Against Tax Avoidance», Canadian Current Tax, Vol.

Cooperation between countries to recover lost taxes should also be improved, the reports say, and countries should make better use of new data that is being collected as part of the major reforms on information exchange — an accomplishment which should give the fight against tax avoidance a major boost in the EU.

According to Bloomberg, public tumult is on its way to pushing for the enhancement of enforcement measures against tax avoidance, but political establishments will remain eroded in terms of credibility and effectiveness.

A three - month programme of industrial action is also being planned, along with a fresh campaign against tax avoidance and evasion.

In every Budget I've given, action against tax avoidance and evasion has contributed to the repair of our public finances.

The figures are released to encourage action against tax avoidance at next week's G20 summit in London.

He said a mansion tax for those living in houses worth over # 2 million, moves against tax avoidance including closing hedge fund tax loopholes and a raid on tobacco companies» profits would help pay to relieve NHS workers of the «huge future pressures» they face.

The findings of the ComRes study commissioned by Christian Aid have been published ahead of the Budget on Wednesday, which is expected to include new measures against tax avoidance following further revelations made in the Paradise Papers.

Not exact matches

The prime minister said that while he was against «aggressive tax avoidance schemes» in principle he did not think Barlow should have to hand back his OBE.

The public accounts committee (PAC) substantiated claims from UK Uncut, which campaigns against corporate tax avoidance, and suggested there are # 25 billion of outstanding tax issues with big companies which Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has failed to deal with.

He said the coalition had worked to strengthen measures against tax evasion and avoidance, including spending on additional tax inspectors, adding: «All of those things serve to ensure we will raise more and more money from those who choose not to pay their fair share of taxes.»

The government has promised to introduce a law against general tax avoidance, which could be introduced in next year's Queen's Speech.

Then came an isolated flutter of anger against comedian Jimmy Carr, who found himself the target of the prime minister's criticisms over his tax avoidance measures.

It must energise and enthuse the membership, give them (and even activists outside the party, trade unionists, and those campaigning against NHS cuts, bedroom taxes, work capability assessments, tax avoidance and the rest) a sense of ownership, recognition that they are being heard.

Meanwhile Tory MEPs voted against a report on paid paternity leave, reducing the gender pay gap and combating violence against women, while UKIP MEPs opposed investigating tax evasion and avoidance, capping credit card charges and labelling processed meat with its country of origin.

This will give HMRC considerably more fire power in its battle against tax evasion and avoidance.

Warming to his theme, the author of the notice then explains how follower notices and accelerated payment notices are new weapons in HMRC's armoury in the fight against avoidance and how the new legislation penalising enablers of tax avoidance will represent a further step along this road.

One of the fall - back provisions, which usually applies in tax avoidance cases due to the delay in HMRC bringing their claim, is three years from the date in which someone is reasonably put on notice as to the potential for a claim against the professional.

Notable examples include acting for accountants in long - running litigation arising out of a failed tax avoidance scheme; acting for the developer and manufacturer of an offshore drilling system following an accident in operation; representing one of the Defendants in Novoship v Mikhaylyuk & Others, concerning allegations of bribery and secret profits; appearing in a substantial LCIA arbitration about the theft of oil stocks in East Africa;, successfully representing a broker in litigation against a former client under a futures brokerage contract in Sucden v Fluxo - Cane [2010] 2 CLC 216; and The «Ekha» [2011] 1 All ER Comm 1077, long - running litigation in the Commercial Court and Court of Appeal about an offshore drilling contract.

Gordons LLP's «commercial and practical» professional negligence practice is led by James Laycock and includes Andrew Breckenridge, a banking litigation specialist who joined in January 2017 from DWF, and Stephen McVey, whose experience includes acting in a multimillion - pound claim against a firm of accountants relating to tax avoidance schemes.

Steven Porter was recently made partner and is leading a series of judicial review challenges brought by taxpayers against HMRC regarding payment notices for the clients» involvement in tax avoidance schemes.

In the recent First Tier Tribunal decision of Anthony Bayliss v HMRC (TC / 2015 / 06609), the Tribunal not only cleared the taxpayer of fraud, but also of negligence, and criticised the «highly questionable» approach taken by HMRC to the penalties issued against him for his use of a tax avoidance scheme.

For example recruitment agency workers can still claim employment rights against hirers despite having their own agency worker rights, and temporary work is seen as exploitative both in terms of employment rights and tax avoidance.