Posts Tagged ‘UK News’
11/03/09 Brown and tax havens – Treat ‘em mean
March 11, 2009 | General News & Cases | BTC | 0 Comment
Editorial: The Guardian However slowly, however piecemeal, progress is being made in forcing tax havens to become less secretive. Yesterday it was the turn of Jersey to sign an agreement with the UK that it will share information about offshore tax payments. Gordon Brown has been sounding tougher too. In his ...
12/02/2009 14,000 tax avoidance schemes and counting…
February 12, 2009 | General News & Cases,HMRC News and Guidance | BTC | 0 Comment
At the last count, since rules requiring the disclosure of tax avoidance arrangements to HMRC were introduced in 2004 there had been around 14,000 such schemes. Or so we thought. Now it seems these might be far from the limit of the problem, as many "promoters" of schemes, such as accountants, ...
