Sentences with phrase «aggressive tax avoidance»

Alongside avoiders, there are measures to beef up the powers to expose promoters of aggressive tax avoidance schemes.

But there are still too many who illegally evade their taxes, or use aggressive tax avoidance in order not to pay their fair share.

Part of the reason this feature was such a popular read was that it functioned as a bit of a Rorschach blot: some readers felt we were persecuting companies simply for being good at finding efficiencies within the bounds of the tax code; others felt we were glorifying unethical conduct and promoting aggressive tax avoidance schemes that are unethical even if legal.

Meanwhile — despite much evidence to the contrary — the Conservatives still seem to think that voters approve of the victimisation of benefit claimants over cracking down on aggressive tax avoidance.

The inability of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to properly curb aggressive tax avoidance schemes is costing the UK billions of pounds, a report suggests.

Questioned over aggressive tax avoidance, which the chancellor, George Osborne, has called «morally repugnant», Cameron refused to be drawn on whether Sir Philip Green fell into this category.

«I'm not commenting on someone's tax affairs on air,» Cameron said, while adding: «I think aggressive tax avoidance is wrong and I think it is right the government is going after this activity.»

Prosecutors will also face difficulties in proving the new failure to prevent offences, and in distinguishing facilitation of tax evasion from aggressive tax avoidance.

The decision has also been followed up by hard law with a number of nations outlawing aggressive tax avoidance.

* * * First, the risk of wrongful conviction, even with a mens rea requirement, is real: the line between aggressive tax avoidance and «corrupt» obstruction can be hard to discern, especially when no IRS investigation is active.

The legislation addresses concerns about how aggressive tax avoidance transactions affect the fairness of the income tax system — everyone must...

This will help «authorities to effectively counter aggressive tax avoidance, tax evasion, money laundering and other criminal activities perpetrated through the misuse of corporate vehicles,» it says.

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.

GE's reputation has suffered since revelations of its aggressive tax avoidance efforts first surfaced in the New York Times,...

But now it's aggressive tax avoidance.

The approach of the courts to aggressive tax avoidance has meant that few such schemes actually work.

A report from the Commons» public accounts committee out today judged the aggressive tax avoidance practises, which are costing the UK billions of pounds, to be «outrageous» and «immoral».

The company has also come under scrutiny for its aggressive tax avoidance strategies.

Whilst we welcome the FFA's references to expanding the tax base and challenging harmful tax incentives we need to oppose not just tax evasion but aggressive tax avoidance, which, though technically legal, can be immoral in denying countries the funds needed for delivering on the right to education.

CRA will be using EFT details to more effectively identify Canadian taxpayers who participate in aggressive tax avoidance and those who attempt to conceal income and assets offshore and evade their Canadian tax reporting requirements.