Heather Self partner in the International Tax Services Group at Grant Thornton UK LLP gives us her thoughts on what is and is not acceptable tax avoidance
It was 6 February 1984 and as a recently qualified accountant I was polishing off my last audit before being allowed to escape to the tax department. The phone rang and a colleague who had been a tax senior for six months told me that the taxpayer had lost in the House of Lords in Furniss v Dawson[1984] STC 153. Was this the end of tax planning? Had I made a suicidal career move into an area which would be moribund within weeks?
More than 20 years later we are still debating the question of tax avoidance. We...
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Heather Self partner in the International Tax Services Group at Grant Thornton UK LLP gives us her thoughts on what is and is not acceptable tax avoidance
It was 6 February 1984 and as a recently qualified accountant I was polishing off my last audit before being allowed to escape to the tax department. The phone rang and a colleague who had been a tax senior for six months told me that the taxpayer had lost in the House of Lords in Furniss v Dawson[1984] STC 153. Was this the end of tax planning? Had I made a suicidal career move into an area which would be moribund within weeks?
More than 20 years later we are still debating the question of tax avoidance. We...
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