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The Alternative Minimum Tax was developed to reduce the impact of certain tax avoidance schemes. Furthermore, while tax avoidance is in principle legal, if the IRS in its sole judgment determines that tax avoidance is the 'principal purpose' for an expatriation attempt, 'covered expat' status will be applied to the requester, thereby forcing an ...
[1] [2] Donors to the Cup Trust benefited from tax deductions of up to £55 million. The Cup Trust has requested £46 million in Gift Aid from HM Revenue, arising from the donations which the trust has received. [1] [2] Gift Aid is a facility offered by HMRC for charities to reclaim basic rate tax on donations.
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Propaganda poster issued by the British tax authorities to counter offshore tax evasion. HMRC, the UK tax collection agency, estimated that in the tax year 2016–17, pure tax evasion (i.e. not including things like hidden economy or criminal activity) cost the government £5.3 billion. This compared to a wider tax gap (the difference between ...
K2 was an offshore wealth management scheme in which salaries of individuals in the United Kingdom were channelled through shell corporations in Jersey, Channel Islands.In June 2012, media reporting of people using K2 for the purposes of tax avoidance was followed by the United Kingdom's Prime Minister David Cameron characterising the scheme as "morally wrong". [1]
By including S58(4) "The amendments made by subsections (1) to (3) are treated as always having had effect" these changes were effectively made retrospective, rendering any use of avoidance schemes such as those set up after Padmore and the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 illegal irrespective of the law at the time they were conceived or entered into.
Tax avoidance schemes, which are the legal use of rules to reduce taxes, may take advantage of jurisdictions with low or no taxes, known as tax havens. For example, individuals may move their investments or their residence, and corporations may move their headquarters, to jurisdictions with more favorable tax environments.
Post–2010 research on tax havens is focused on quantitative analysis (which can be ranked), and tends to ignore very small tax havens where data is limited as the haven is used for individual tax avoidance rather than corporate tax avoidance. The last credible broad unranked list of global tax havens is the James Hines 2010 list of