Not exact matches
The Bill also contains clauses paving the way for Making Tax Digital, substantial changes to the rules for fulfilment businesses and a range of anti-
avoidance measures,
including penalties for enablers of
avoidance schemes.
She also announced a set of measures,
including a program that will stop groups who promote tax evasion and
avoidance schemes.
I think it requires a combination of several approaches to end complicated tax
avoidance and evasion
schemes:
including harmonisation of tax bases, ambitious reforms, and efficient transparency standards at an international level.
The consultation, published today by HM Revenue & Customs, says that advisers —
including lawyers, banks and accountancy companies — whose tax
avoidance schemes are defeated in court may have to pay up to 100 % of the tax avoided in fines.
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.
It also offers a tax
avoidance clampdown,
including action to prevent businesses converting capital losses into trading losses and measures to stop abuse of foreign pension
schemes.