TAX AVOIDANCE -By Ramesh Badhri Narayan(12741880) Vijayakumar Muniyandi (12741572) Punjabi Nikhil Prakash (12744129) LIM QI CHONG (12782025) Koundompalayam Jagannathan Meignanam(12742198) 1.0 Tax Avoidance:- An Arrangement where the intention is to avoid or defer tax obligations. Various means of approach- from mass marketed (advertised to general public) to specialist financial arrangements offered directly to investors. Certain Schemes can be camouflaged as legal financial
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between Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion Tax avoidance is generally the legal exploitation of the tax regime to one’s own advantage‚ to attempt to reduce the amount of tax that is payable by means that are within the law whilst making a full disclosure of the material information to the tax authorities. Examples of tax avoidance involve using tax deductions‚ changing one’s business structure through incorporation or establishing an offshore company in a tax haven. By contrast tax evasion is the general
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the problems created by tax havens and non-cooperative jurisdiction for the United Kingdom (UK) experienced by Her Magistrate Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The discussion will also underpin the framework of tax evasion and avoidance analysing how companies and individual manipulate tax regimes for their own benefits. The discussions will then peer-review on the measures that have been taken by UK in cooperation with other countries to eradicate such activities. TASK 1 Tax havens and non-cooperate
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Customs (HRMC) to abolish the tax avoidance schemes that is seen as totally abusive and unacceptable for the importance of the United Kingdom herself. The HRMC feels the need to curb the problems of companies investing offshores‚ people not using banks for their businesses and daily transactions and the list go on just to avoid paying the high rate of taxes that they are obliged to. The government claims that GAAR is the ultimate solution to approach the United Kingdom tax system. The question is‚ how
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Who did it? eBay avoided £ 50m in tax Starbucks paid less than 1% tax on its profit IKEA halved its tax bill Former Italian Prime Minister Bersculoni List goes on…. How do they do it? Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) Sister Company Round Tripping Tax havens Influencing audit committees Who is affected? Government Less of taxes Profits siphoned off to other countries Fiscal deficit General public Less spending from govt.‚ less benefits
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What tax avoidance plan does Bombardier use? (6 marks) Proposed by consultants from Ernst & Young‚ Bombardier’s tax avoidance plan involved the financial restructuring of the company’s financing activities which included sending $500 million from Bombardier’s U.S. unit to a Luxembourg subsidiary in exchange for mandatory
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current scenario transfer pricing regime in Bangladesh so that with the help of the review of related research works‚ a picture can be portrayed. In today’s globalised world‚ transfer pricing is assuming growing importance both from the perspective of tax agencies which are interested to combat the abusive use of it‚ and of many of the multinational corporations (MNCs) with cross‐border operations and transactions for which this is becoming a common practice. MNCs are increasingly operating in regions
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and losses. Creative Accounting – Example 2 – Moving business segments offshore Enron created these entities offshore. This is also a common practice in accounting and tax planning. Many businesses do this to reduce the amount of taxes they pay‚ this can be done legally (tax avoidance) and it can take illegal forms (tax evasion). Offshore entities usually enjoy an enhanced level of privacy‚ this can make it difficult for local governments and auditors to gain insights into what is going on. Enron
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How the SWOT analysis can be used to make investment recommendations ——based on the case of “China Life Insurance Company Limited” Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Company Overview 5 2.1 History and firm size 5 2.2 Product and service network 5 2.3 Financial overview 6 2.4 Strategic Objectives 6 3. SWOT analysis 7 3.1 Strengths 8 3.1.1 Financial achievement 8 3.1.2 Corporation operation 10 3.2 Weaknesses 11 3.2.1 Geographic concentration 12 3.2.2 Declining performance
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[pic] CIMA MANAGERIAL PAPER 7 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING AND TAX PRINCIPLES INTERNAL ASSESSMENT PLEASE ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS ANSWERS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY 23/03/09. 1. The qualitative characteristics of relevance‚ reliability and comparability identified in the IASB’s Framework for the preparation and presentation of financial statements (Framework) are some of the attributes that make financial information useful to the various users of financial statements. Required: Explain what is
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