Saving tax for clients has always been a major objective for many accountants and other trusted advisors. And, for many years, accountants and other advisors introduced their clients to a tax scheme promoter who sold various structures both offshore and onshore.
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HMRC views some tax avoidance schemes as a “misrepresentation of the true nature of events”
According to HMRC, the fine line between tax avoidance and tax evasion has been crossed and deliberately so. HMRC’s unit known as Offshore Corporate and Wealthy (OCW) was established in the wake of the ‘Panama Papers’ scandal in 2016 to investigate serious non-compliance by businesses and the wealthiest taxpayers. Today, the OCW is revisiting aContinue reading “HMRC views some tax avoidance schemes as a “misrepresentation of the true nature of events””