Philip Martin of Marks & Spencer Group Tax expresses his personal view on the great tax avoidance debate. The opinions expressed are the author's own
'If you're getting bored with the current emphasis on tax morality' said the senior Revenue official 'you ain't heard nothing yet'.
This was said to a business group that had visited Somerset House before the 2003 Budget to make its representations. We had just been told that it was our moral duty to notify the Revenue if professional firms approached companies selling 'avoidance schemes'. And now Dave Hartnett's comments at the Wyman debate (The Tax Journal 30 June Issue 699) follow the Chancellor's speech to the 2002 CBI Conference Richard Broadbent's attack...
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Philip Martin of Marks & Spencer Group Tax expresses his personal view on the great tax avoidance debate. The opinions expressed are the author's own
'If you're getting bored with the current emphasis on tax morality' said the senior Revenue official 'you ain't heard nothing yet'.
This was said to a business group that had visited Somerset House before the 2003 Budget to make its representations. We had just been told that it was our moral duty to notify the Revenue if professional firms approached companies selling 'avoidance schemes'. And now Dave Hartnett's comments at the Wyman debate (The Tax Journal 30 June Issue 699) follow the Chancellor's speech to the 2002 CBI Conference Richard Broadbent's attack...
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