Sentences with phrase «avoidance schemes used»

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer issued a statement on Sunday accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of failing to crack down on «tax avoidance schemes used by his wealthy friends.»

Most recently, the leak of financial documents known as the «Paradise Papers» exposed a network of tax - avoidance schemes used by the world's super-rich and famous.

Not exact matches

So Hempton's conclusion was that either the Times had the story wrong, and Trump wasn't able to avoid taxes, or Trump used some other tax avoidance scheme that was still hiding in his tax returns.

And he promised a new penalty for those enabling the use of a tax avoidance scheme that HMRC later defeats.

«Raising the stakes on tax avoidance», a consultation document published by HM Revenue and Customs, sets out a number of proposals relating to the promotion and use of so - called high - risk avoidance schemes, aimed at reducing the use of such schemes.1 Commenting, CIOT President Stephen Coleclough said: «Those members of the public who become end users of high risk avoidance schemes are sometimes misled by the promoters of such schemes and are not fully made aware of the risks or consequences of their decisions.

There will also be a new penalty for repeated use of tax avoidance schemes.

Comedian Jimmy Carr says he has «made a terrible error of judgement» over using a tax avoidance scheme.

He has acted for the liquidator in Edennote v Terry Venables; successfully resisted the winding - up of Stock, Aiken & Waterman; acted for the preference shareholders in the Barings dispute; advises on claims involving the transaction avoidance provisions of the Insolvency Act; appeared in Edward Klempka: In Re Parkside — important authority on the question of what amounts to a preference when dealing with common directorships; acted for the Cayman Islands» appointed SPC Receiver in the # 100m Axiom LItigiation Funding Fraud case which involved the first case of a SPC Receiver being recognised under the Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006; has recently advised on several schemes of arrangement; regularly advises on recovery of assets in an insolvency context using the transaction avoidance rules.

The Court ruled that the scheme was a tax avoidance arrangement and commented in particular on the risk that the scheme would never be a profitable one, the gratuitous use of the promissory note mechanism and the timing mismatch between when expenditure was legally incurred and the point when it was required to be paid «in an economic sense».

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.

«Naming and shaming proposals seem rather redundant when the media to do such a good job at exposing people who use avoidance schemes!

«Jimmy Carr and his K2 tax - minimising cohorts have attracted their share of detractors for using a tax - avoidance scheme which reduced the amount payable on their income to about 2 %.

MTAR test has been effective in stopping the use of insurance as tax avoidance scheme.