Mixed messages on avoidance

The resignation of prominent GAAR panellist should force the profession to fight back, says Sara White

And so the tax bashing rolls on with the latest Panorama sting, frustrating to watch if truth be told; it felt more witch hunt than investigation. The outcome is that a respected tax expert, Baker Tilly partner David Heaton, has resigned from the government's flagship anti-avoidance panel, arbiters of the much-anticipated GAAR, which was going to solve all tax avoidance in some fabulous swoop on the evaders and avoiders.

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