Not exact matches
The IRS warns that it remains focused on
schemes to dodge
taxes by hiding assets in
offshore accounts.
The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, advised Nigerians to review any existing
tax planning
schemes, including those in
offshore tax havens, in order...
More than 100 UK millionaires have been identified as
tax dodgers after hiding their wealth using
offshore schemes.
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.
His experience also includes domestic income
tax, the impact of company restructurings and employee incentive
schemes on capital gains
tax, and including Broad - Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) issues, as well as
offshore investment in Africa and the Middle East.
In the
offshore arena, the decision of the US Supreme Court in Pasquantino v US (2005) 125 S Ct 1766 that a
scheme to defraud a foreign government of
tax revenue violates the US wire fraud statute providing there is a US link — despite the revenue rule, a common law doctrine prohibiting US courts from enforcing a foreign state's domestic
tax infrastructure — is highly significant.