Allow HM Revenue and Customs to declare any scheme designed purely to allow the avoidance of tax "null and void" in law.
It is not even abuse of the system in furtherance of tax avoidance: it is the very point of the system.
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report warned the taxman was losing the "game of cat and mouse" to clients and promoters of tax avoidance schemes as they deliberately took advantage of the time it takes HMRC to shut such schemes down.
The prime minister also promised to put the issue of corporate tax avoidance "at the heart" of the G8 meeting to be held later this year.
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That is an example of high-end tax evasion but travel around the islands and other signs of tax avoidance are on display everyday.
Jim Harra, director general of business tax at HMRC, said it had a "good track record" of defeating tax avoidance schemes.
Tax avoidance is the legal use of the tax framework to reduce the amount of tax payable whereas tax evasion is against the law.
So if raising marginal tax rates causes a decrease in tax revenue thanks to a combination of legal tax avoidance, illegal tax evasion, and voluntary emigration, so be it.
That is, they often imply that all tax rate cuts or avoidance of increases would pay fully for themselves with increased tax revenue.
MPs on the committee have been questioning tax advisers and operators of tax avoidance schemes.
Last week, the Observer launched a debate over the specific problem of tax avoidance in developing companies.
And does so entirely legally without even a hint of tax avoidance let alone anything more than that.
But then it is not Mr Robinson who preached about the immorality of legal methods of tax avoidance.
His party colleague, Lord Phillips of Sudbury, claimed that an international industry of tax avoidance began in the 1970s.
Executives from some of the world's most-recognised firms have been grilled by MPs on the issue of tax avoidance.
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Apple's appearance comes just a day after the same panel branded Apple's complex structure the "Holy Grail of tax avoidance".
At the time, his critics questioned whether someone with this record of tax avoidance should oversee the Internal Revenue Service.
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The Labour MP has been one of the fiercest critics of tax avoidance by companies such as Starbucks, Google and Amazon.
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"Apple has sought the Holy Grail of tax avoidance, " said Mr. Levin.
This new procurement protocol is likely to deter many businesses from involvement in schemes and arrangements which might fall foul of tax avoidance law.
The landscape of tax avoidance and bank secrecy in offshore tax havens changed due to individuals who blew the whistle on private offshore banking practices.
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Discussions of the ethics of tax avoidance are now everywhere.
On the recent controversy of tax avoidance schemes, Mr Blair said he thought the mood had changed, saying that in tough times people wanted to know everyone was paying their fair share.
But I would say that planning to qualify clients for Medicaid coverage of nursing home care has surpassed estate tax avoidance as an objective of estate planning.
Members should also adopt a common General Anti-Abuse Rule, whereby they can ignore artificial tax avoidance schemes and tax the underlying sum of money, the Commission said.
This will clearly and obviously lower that e2 value, the amount of avoidance that anyone can do in the face of higher tax rates.
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It has not been suggested that any of their tax avoidance schemes are illegal.
In the wake of recent tax avoidance scandals, the chancellor might provide new details as to how he intends to make companies pay more tax.
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