The day before, he and a bunch of senior colleagues had been arrested for helping big companies evade tax.
So the claim that vast sums of Russian money move to Cyprus in order to evade tax looks pretty weak on the face of it.
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The website's founder believes this is because bribing a tax inspector is only likely to happen when someone is trying to evade tax, making them unlikely to want to tell people about it, even anonymously.
In the case of a false or fraudulent return with the intent to evade tax, the tax may be assessed, or a proceeding in court for collection of such tax may be begun without assessment, at any time.
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The treasury chief also warned there would be no "hiding place" for those who tried to avoid or evade tax - and he made it clear that such a tough approach would apply to Rangers and other football clubs.
Because of the role that offshore centres play in allowing companies and individuals to avoid, indeed evade, tax, they enjoy powerful backing.
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"This is the largest tax evasion settlement in UK history, marking a significant step forward in the battle against those who seek to evade UK tax, " said the Treasury.
But its reputation is under pressure from a massive German-led tax investigation into 1, 400 people who kept their money in Liechtenstein bank LGT Group, usually in the form of foundations, to help them evade paying tax at home.
The examiner will also be alert to attempts by the non-filer to conceal or transfer assets to evade collection of tax later assessed.
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That 80 cents consists of the real resources people use to evade and avoid the tax plus the misallocation of resources that is cause by taxation.
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The nation's corporate tycoons and some of its government officials have been able to amass fortunes that often evade the government's tax net.
But senior Afghan officials have said U.S. contractors routinely abuse their tax-exempt status to evade import duties and illegally engage in commercial activities.
On June 21, 2012, Iulo, 54 pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, to evade taxes, and to file false tax returns, and one count of conspiracy to commit identity theft.
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In September 2011, Fahy and Spence pled guilty to various crimes, including conspiracy to evade taxes, conspiracy to commit identity theft, and tax evasion.
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The airline is touting the tax free flights as a holiday with the tagline: Evade Taxes.
Raise tax rates and the working rich will work less, defer income, and take more non-cash compensation while the idle rich will defer capital gains, shift their investments to more tax efficient securities like municipal bonds, and (yes) evade taxes.
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Politicians are certainly not alone in their profound misunderstanding of the process of capital and production (while the high-tax impresario himself, Warren Buffett, understands the compounding tax impact so well that he disingenuously structures his investments to evade them).
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