Tax avoidance – what now?

Any firm involved in promoting aggressive schemes needs to be very careful before offering advice to clients, warn Jim Oulton and Tim Shepherd

As we enter the year of the snake, one is reminded of the old Chinese curse: ‘may you live in interesting times’. Tax professionals have probably been in the limelight more in the last 18 months than they have been for many years.

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