For example, Starbucks UK pays a 6% royalty (this was actually lowered to 4.7% when the taxman took a close look at it) to another Dutch subsidiary of the American parent company.
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The club argued their hands were tied as the taxman refused a one-off sum.
It is as though ducking and diving to avoid the taxman is a national sport, a cultural trait that is as old as the Gods on Mount Olympus.
The encouraging result was a modest profit and a net gain to the taxman.
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Since the pay of these plutocrats is highly variable, a bad year for them means a bad year for the taxman.
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While an enterprise must offer its products and services to potential consumers who are free to say no, a bureaucracy looks to the taxman.
And the taxman gives you a break, as well.
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But a 2003 agreement between the industry's lobby group and the taxman suggests this is little more than a fig leaf.
Predictably, the biggest winner has been the taxman, who collects a large share of gross takings.
If you find a year or two hence (as you well may) that you can no longer park your money quietly in a Luxembourg bank account and the taxman be damned, that will be largely Mr Monti's doing.
Welsh Premier football club Llanelli has fended off a third attempt is six months by the taxman to have it wound up at the High Court in London.
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But the taxman is often the creditor who tips a firm into bankruptcy, says Mr Hood.
Have a look at all the exciting things your friendly taxman has sent you.
Note that even if your brokerage tells you the cost basis of an asset after a sale, it may not be telling the taxman.
He assumes that the black economy works largely on cash to dodge the taxman or the policeman, and so a bigger shadow economy means a greater demand for banknotes.
In which case expect the taxman, wherever he is, to become a lot more aggressive sometime soon.
Much of Russian managers' time is spent thinking of ways to diddle anyone with a claim on their cashflow, such as workers, shareholders or the taxman.
Unlike his counterparts in Syria, who keep fingers in as many pies as possible to spread the risk and distract the taxman, Mr Samha puts all his energy and earnings into a single trade.
Giving money away to a cause of your choice is immensely more attractive than having it taken by the taxman.
Over time, says fund researcher Lipper , the average equity fund investor investing through a taxable account gives up 2.5 percentage points of annual return to the taxman.
The taxman may have to admit defeat in this dispute but he has managed to gain a number of concessions from Andronikou (a thorough investigation into what has happened at Fratton Park over the last few years being the most valuable) and sent a clear message to the rest of football: pay your taxes.
This, along with a drastic reduction in the number of annual payments needed, has cut the time spent grappling with the taxman by 148 hours per year compared with 2004.
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