But to placate revenue-ravenous governors and mayors who see the Internet as simply a grand sales-tax dodge, Congress set up a 19-member commission to examine whether and how to tax commerce on the Internet.
"As far as I can tell, the idea behind Apple was a tax dodge, " music journalist Douglas Wolk says.
It also produced a new set of guidelines, under which funds must show that they aren't just a tax dodge.
Many people criticized Saverin for what seemed like a tax dodge, including two U.S. senators, but now the 30-year-old is fighting back.
If you're pushing the position that the rich should pay more to help fix the deficit, it doesn't quite follow to employ a tax dodge, says Dennis Kelleher, president of the Washington-based public interest group Better Markets Inc.
Marcelle Speller, founder and chief executive of localgiving.com, a website which links small charities and community projects with philanthropists, has said that although she is still very passionate about local giving, it is "galling" to think that the money she has given over the years is now being seen as a tax dodge.
It combines elements of passive investing with a simple but effective tax dodge.
Take two well-intentioned tax breaks and combine them into a dodge Congress could not have intended.
To get the most out of this tax dodge, you should set up not one Grat but a lot of them.
Uncovering offshore tax strategies used to dodge U.S. taxation is a top IRS enforcement priority, and whistleblowers are of central importance to that mission.
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The programme examines the decision to use stealth taxes in the first Labour parliament of 1997, and the decision to dodge questions about tax rises in the 2001 election campaign - less than a year before the announcement of a big rise in National Insurance.
On what we would suggest George Osborne do, he said that "you have got to stop-up a whole lot of tax loopholes", for example the "glaring dodge" of very wealthy people avoiding stamp duty by owning their homes in the name of foreign companies.
The venture will fail and a lot of serious fall-out will occur soon enough, especially with regards to the complicity within the establishment regarding the tax-dodge operated by Rangers and the many illegal player registrations it caused as a consequence.
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