Search Results for: tax loopholes
Businesses Find Ways to Avoid Corporate Taxes, but a Fix Seems Unlikely
August 29th, 2014
A pharmaceutical company moved its headquarters to Ireland, sharply reducing its tax rate. A billboard company reclassified itself as a real estate concern, meaning it will no longer pay corporate taxes. And a big oil producer split itself in ...
Treasury seeks ways to block tax inversions
August 6th, 2014
The Treasury Department is exploring ways to unilaterally block a surge of U.S. companies shifting their headquarters overseas in search of major tax savings. The new escalation of the White House battle against corporate tax inversions came as a ...
DOTAS ‘kiss of death’ for tax avoidance schemes
August 5th, 2014
The Dotas regime has become the “kiss of death” for tax avoidance schemes and has pushed some promoters into providing non-DOTAS structures instead. The Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes (DOTAS) sees anyone entering into a scheme generating tax savings ...
Tax Inversion: What’s the Real Story?
August 5th, 2014
Tax inversion is turning the country inside out. Although the rhetoric flying back and forth is complex, the basic premise is actually quite simple: Multi-national corporations that are reaping profits after taking advantage of favorable U.S. laws are relocating ...
Banks Cash In on Mergers Intended to avoid Taxes
July 29th, 2014
Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, recently said, “I love America.” Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, wrote an opinion article saying, “Investing in America still produces the best return.” Yet guess who’s behind the ...
Rangers tax case: questions over HMRC’s motivation
July 11th, 2014
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) on Wednesday lost its latest legal fight over a claim that Rangers were liable for a £46.2 million bill over the club’s use of a scheme to make payments to its employees. Placing ...
In Deal to Cut Corporate Taxes, Shareholders Pay the Price
July 9th, 2014
Medtronic is pursuing a deal to move abroad and save taxes. But few have noticed that the company’s shareholders will be the ones left with a big tax bill as a result. Oddly, some of Medtronic’s largest shareholders — ...
New tax reliefs complicate the system and offer more opportunities for tax avoidance’ MPs warn
June 27th, 2014
A committee of MPs has accused the Government of creating more opportunities for tax avoidance by introducing new tax reliefs which cost the country £100billion a year. The Government’s Office of Tax Simplification has introduced 134 new tax reliefs ...
Cash Abroad Rises $206 Billion as Apple to IBM Avoid Tax
March 14th, 2014
The largest U.S.-based companies added $206 billion to their stockpiles of offshore profits last year, parking earnings in low-tax countries until Congress gives them a reason not to. The multinational companies have accumulated $1.95 trillion outside the U.S., up ...
Eight men earn more than 3.6 billion people: our economics is broken
January 16th, 2017
Today, eight people have the same wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population. Stop and think about this. It is a mind-boggling concept. Last year we said we would have needed a double-decker bus to transport the ...
