Sentences with phrase «public tax avoidance»

What indignation about Google's tax strategy misses is that public tax avoidance hardly damages this image at all.

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In recent months, revelations from European authorities about the tax avoidance strategies used by Google, Starbucks and Amazon have all stirred public anger and spurred several European governments, as well as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based research organization for the world's richest countries, to discuss measures to close the loopholes.

Uber, which under new global chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi is eyeing a public listing in 2019, faced scrutiny from a Senate inquiry into tax avoidance in 2016 about how much of its earnings remained in Australia.

It won't be long before banks are going to be answering to the public about their role in advising clients on tax avoidance.

Stephen Williams, chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Treasury Committee, comments on the public accounts committee (PAC) report into corporate tax avoidance:

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.

Len McCluskey, Unite general secretary, comments on the public accounts committee (PAC) report into corporate tax avoidance:

Margaret Hodge, chair of the committee of public accounts (PAC) comments on her report into corporate tax avoidance:

But the domestic scandal over tax avoidance — the outraged bluster of Margaret Hodge's mock trial of the Great Avoiders before the UK Public Accounts Committee; David Cameron's barely - veiled threat at Davos to corporations who needed to «wake up and smell the coffee»; UK Uncut's shop - floor protests — has done little damage to its targets.

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».

It is unsurprising therefore that Corbyn has been able to tap into widespread public anger, with his plans to tackle corporate tax avoidance and banker bonuses.

These include departmental committees, such as those for Business Innovation & Skills (which carried out the questioning of Ashley and Green) or Culture, Media & Sport (which questioned Rupert Murdoch and others over phone hacking), as well as cross-cutting committees such as Public Accounts (the source of the Google inquiry on tax avoidance) and Science & Technology.

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee said that accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers manufactured tax avoidance schemes on an industrial scale to enable its clients to avoid UK taxes.

«While the Tories refuse to properly clamp down on tax avoidance and push ahead with tax giveaways to the corporations and super rich, public sector workers like our nurses are relying on food banks.

The government has made commitments to crack down on tax avoidance in order to ease the impact of public spending cuts, though the # 2 billion figure suggested by Mr Gauke was dismissed as insufficient by unions.

«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.

«Osborne's rhetoric on tax avoidance would be welcome if it represented any serious attempt to tackle the tax dodgers who deprive our public finances of tens of billions of pounds a year.

More tax is lost to onshore evasion or non-compliance than to offshore evasion and avoidance but it does not always attract the same level of public interest - for example a former minister for tax was vilified for making the very valid point about the scale of the tax loss from paying tradespeople in cash.

During his Labour leadership campaign, Jeremy Corbyn claimed # 120bn could be recovered from tax avoidance and evasion - enough to eliminate the UK's budget deficit without cutting welfare or public spending.

Just like Miliband, McDonnell seems to be worried by the response of the public to higher taxes and borrowing, so he falls back on intangibles like growth and tax avoidance.

Tax avoidance — be it of Stanley Fink's vanilla flavour or Starbuck's pumpkin - spiced variety — is provoking a particularly strong public reaction at the moment.

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

Andrew George, MP for St Ives, sardonically remarked that Green would have been «more useful in terms of advising on tax avoidance... than deciding on the future job prospects of, particularly, the poorest - paid public servants».

10.30 am: Lin Homer, chief executive and permanent secretary at HM Revenue & Customs, gives evidence to the Commons public accounts committee about tax avoidance.

The deputy leader of the Green Party said clamping down on tax avoidance and evasion could save # 80bn each year - enough to replace the cuts to public services.

Oliver Huitson listens to Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, talk about the Autumn statement, tax avoidance, Union strategy and the Conservative vision for the nation — where are we headed, decades of austerity, or is Britain «de-developing»?

If such tax avoidance were to occur in countries like Zambia, Spencer hypothesises, this could lead to a loss of tax revenue that could instead help the government's distribution of free ORS and zinc and fundamental public health measures such as infrastructure for water and sanitation.

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the Appellate Practice Group that the benefit plans were sophisticated tax - avoidance schemes marketed to certain types of businesses, and not the general public.

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.

In a case concerning tax avoidance, he commented that equitable relief may be refused on the grounds of public policy.

Simon Bevan, author of the BDO FraudTrack report, which looks at reported fraud above # 50,000, said the research shows fraud, rather than alleged tax avoidance by multinationals, is «the bigger drain on the public purse».

Businesses that are in the public eye rely on good PR and will not want to be splashed across the tabloids if they're going to be seen to be doing anything that could be construed as tax avoidance.