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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Assignment 4: Tax Structure Julian Hoggard Strayer University PAD 505 Public Budgeting and Finance Dr. William H. Kraus Dec. 2‚ 2012 Habitat for Humanity is a non profit organization that uses volunteer labor‚ donated materials from churches and other organizations to build new housing for low-income families. Habitat for Humanity has built over 45‚000 homes throughout the nation and over 150‚000 homes worldwide. The goal of the organization is to eliminate poverty and homelessness
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Tax Havens One of the major ways to evade taxes is through the use of tax havens. When most people think of a tax haven‚ a tropical island where corporations and the rich hide their money from the government is typically what comes to mind‚ but that isn’t always the case. There are many separate definitions and lists of what constitutes a tax haven‚ but perhaps the most widely accepted is the criteria put forth by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development. The OECD focused on “factors
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INTRODUCTION Service tax is a tax on Services. Service tax is not a tax on profession / trade but it is a tax on the service provided in exercise of the profession / trade. It is leviable only if there is provision of service. SALE V/S SERVICE Service is different from sale. The fact that some goods have been used in the course of providing service’ doesn’t make that transaction a sale. The nature of the transaction depends on the intention of the parties. If the parties intended to enter into
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ASSIGNMENT on Income Tax Authorities in Bangladesh [pic] National Board of Revenue – NBR Rajashwa Bhaban Segunbagicha‚ Dhaka Telephone: +88 02 933-3444. http://www.nbr-bd.org National Board of Revenue (NBR)
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Tax Shelter I. Definition Any method of decreasing taxable income in a payments to tax collecting entities‚ including state and federal government. The most common type of tax shelter is an employer-sponsored 401(k)plan. a. Types of tax shelters Some tax shelters are questionable or even illegal: Offshore companies. A company which is incorporated outside the jurisdiction of its primary operations regardless of whether that jurisdiction is an offshore financial centre. Due to differing tax
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Excise Taxes Definition of ’Excise Tax’ 1. An indirect tax charged on the sale of a particular good. 2. A penalty tax applied to ineligible transactions in retirement accounts. This penalty is assessed by and paid to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). 1. Excise taxes are considered an indirect form of taxation because the government does not directly apply the tax. An intermediary‚ either the producer or merchant‚ is charged and then must pay the tax to the government. These taxes can be categorized
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relevance of Adam’s Smith canons and justify what other attributes I believe a good tax system should have. Formally‚ tax is defined as an involuntary fee enforced by the government in order to finance its activities. However‚ some perceive tax as the price we pay to live in a civilised society and it is a fundamental part of any developed economy. (Oliver Wendell Holmes) From my point of view‚ the purpose of tax is to fund the government‚ incentivise certain behaviour in order to achieve economic
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Sin Tax Bill (For the Government) OVERALL SUMMARY: According to James Sadowsky‚ author of The Economics of Sin Taxes‚ taxes imposed on products seen as vices such as alcoholic liquors and tobaccos are called sin tax. Aside from the commodities being objects of disapproval‚ even their consumers accept such taxes because they seem to hit two birds in one stone. First‚ they raise revenues and second‚ they made vices expensive. House Bill 5727 or also known as the Sin Tax Bill aims to reform the
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FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION OUTLINE Gross Income Gross Income Defined (§61) – except as otherwise provided‚ gross income means all income from whatever source derived‚ including (but not limited to) the following items: Compensation for services‚ including fees‚ commissions‚ fringe benefits‚ and similar items; Gross income derived from business Gains derived from dealings in property Interest Rents Royalties Dividends Alimony and separate maintenance payments Annuities Income from life
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