But it was Henry Ford's tax-avoidance strategy two decades earlier that first established the dual-class structure.
As Lawson observed, in late 1970s England, the high rates of taxation created a flourishing tax-avoidance industry.
Germany's tax-avoidance system has been a huge success mainly to Hollywood's benefit, and it has recently been cut.
Although this may look odd to the man in the street, this is a widely used tax-avoidance mechanism.
The tax-avoidance method involves structuring the arrangement as a two-week lease to the charity and treating the improvements as the payment.
The K2 tax-avoidance scheme Carr is said to have used enabled members to pay income tax rates as low as 1%.
Was the process difficult because Penny and her tax attorneys had to cook up new tax-avoidance schemes to replace the old ones?
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Look for more such cases as baby boomers find flaws in the elaborate tax-avoidance structures their parents set up before they died.
Its loopholes encourage people to waste time and money on tax-avoidance schemes.
For decades, the Internal Revenue Service has asked courts to look past the fancy lawyering and examine the substance of a tax-avoidance scheme.
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The mind-boggling complexity of the current tax code helps large corporations with lawyers and accountants devise the best tax-avoidance strategies money can buy.
The unseen part is what the economy loses when capital flows are distorted through tax favors, not to mention the great minds we lose to the tax-avoidance industry.
The authorities are getting at Yukos through its tax-avoidance activities.
Congress could finally make public one of the grandest and most successful family tax-avoidance schemes ever one that exposed some pretty significant blind spots in the laws that govern family trusts.
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But the governor of the region and the biggest source of its revenue is one Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea, a London football club, and the boss of Sibneft, which set up many of its tax-avoidance companies there.
Regardless of whether Ms Jowell has done anything wrong, she has been damaged by the picture that has emerged of the world her husband inhabited, one in which raising multiple mortgages to invest in hedge funds or earning large fees to set up exotic tax-avoidance schemes was perfectly normal.
The fuss over the offshore, tax-avoiding trust held by a Treasury minister, Geoffrey Robinson (see article) does not reflect any apparent wrong-doing by Mr Robinson but rather the fact that his boss, Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, has felt the need to attack exactly the sort of tax-avoidance schemes which his colleague has been exploiting.
Opposition spokesman Lord Eatwell said tax avoidance by businesses "undermines any perception of fairness in the tax system and imposes a dead-weight loss on the economy, by spawning a socially-useless tax avoidance industry".
In addition, wealthier individuals lose the ability to do estate-tax avoidance planning.
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The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) said there was already international co-operation to tackle tax avoidance through the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Recently I have been relatively neutral on stocks because the markets in January have been flooded with cash from investors reinvesting proceeds from year-end tax avoidance selling and bonus income they took last year instead of 2013.
By shifting income from high-tax to low-tax countries through transfer pricing, using hybrid entities that are treated as corporations in some countries and flow-through entities in others, stripping profits from high-tax countries through intracompany financing, repatriating under favorable tax conditions, and other tax avoidance mechanisms, multinationals mitigate the impact of being headquartered in a high-tax state.
After the four-hour summit, Mr Cameron will travel to Paris to meet French President Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace where co-operation on tax evasion and avoidance as well as tackling corporate secrecy will again be on the agenda.
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In any case, most of the 2, 000-odd registered insurers were engaged in tax avoidance and capital flight, rather than the dull business of claims and premiums.
Critics claim such places, which operate low-tax regimes, are used by companies for tax avoidance or evasion.
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The president knows this and that is why he is also proposing to beef-up enforcement and policies to further block tax avoidance schemes.
It is not sophisticated tax avoidance, or financial engineering of the sort - arguably - that too many banks and bankers have indulged in.
The Treasury has released a copy of the illustrative examples which left George Osborne "shocked" about wealthy tax avoidance and led him to introduce his since-abandoned plans to cap tax relief on charitable donations.
Members should also adopt a common General Anti-Abuse Rule, whereby they can ignore artificial tax avoidance schemes and tax the underlying sum of money, the Commission said.
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