For Accenture, the Bermuda tax dodge charge is nothing, and it neither admits nor denies.
It combines elements of passive investing with a simple but effective tax dodge.
"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.
To get the most out of this tax dodge, you should set up not one Grat but a lot of them.
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.
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.
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.
But instead of fessing up that he had obeyed only the letter of the law, he insisted yesterday that, gee whiz, the earlier tax dodge didn't even occur to him -- an excuse that came off as legalistic and implausible.
If the tax dodge in question involves inflated deductions (as opposed to omitted income), and if outright fraud is not involved, the agents have only three years from when a return was filed to send a bill for additional taxes.
Although the United Kingdom revenue authorities have been wise to this tax dodge for years, it is evidently still popular with taxpayers from other countries: the report estimates that the 575 residents of Sark appeared to hold around 15, 000 directorships late last year.
The tax dodge using foreign-source income also favours companies that do business in high-tax countries: it is not obvious that the American government should support the treasuries of those countries (or, indeed, those of the handful of Caribbean islands where 95% of the sham firms are located).
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.
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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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And usually you can dodge the tax by rolling over from the other state's plan to your own just before you start making withdrawals, says Hurley.
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.
The link between farmers and Dodge is that your tax dollars support both of them.
Take two well-intentioned tax breaks and combine them into a dodge Congress could not have intended.
All of which implies that many tens of thousands of people were (and are) paying the 50% tax rate, and were unable to dodge it.
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 first is direct: you could ask people whether they dodge taxes, or look at the results of spot tax-audits.
That particular dodge no longer works, but it worked in 1963 and the resulting tax bonanza was grandfathered in 1994.
German investors who have owned shares for more than six months need not pay any capital-gains tax if the company repurchases them, so state finance ministers fear that buybacks will offer investors a way to dodge taxes.
Doctors and patients will dodge the Medicare reimbursement bullet, and Silicon Valley billionaires will not go long without their research and development tax credits.
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