Shark avoidance practices are limited, including avoiding certain areas, moving when shark interaction rates are high, using fish instead of squid for bait and deeper setting.
The Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development OECDD) has released a 15-point plan to increase transparency and minimise tax avoidance practices.
The ATO says, "The first objective of [the laws] is to discourage large corporate tax entities from engaging in aggressive tax avoidance practices.
The bank's internal cultures have been subjected to fresh scrutiny in recent weeks following the revelations in the Guardian, and other publications, about tax avoidance practices in its Swiss banking operations.
UBS, despite its extensive write-offs from subprime mortgages and the continuing American investigation into its tax avoidance practices, has hired 26 financial advisers from Lehman, bulking up its wealth management unit in New York as well as San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The tax office said of the former government's transparency laws: "The first objective of [the laws] is to discourage large corporate tax entities from engaging in aggressive tax avoidance practices.
Even in the boom years when profits swelled, the proportion of tax paid by big companies fell: a third on the FTSE 100 paid no tax in 2005-6, withethelpelp of byzantine avoidance practices.
Revelations in the Guardian and other publications about the activities of HBSC's Swiss operations have put a fresh focus on the tax avoidance practices of banks and their wealthy clients.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the head of the European Union executive, has said he would lead a campaign against tax avoidance and evasion, after dominating Luxembourg politics for 20 years during which the Grand Duchy got rich on the most systematic tax avoidance practices known in Europe.
On the day the House of Commons' public accounts committee branded the US coffee chain's tax avoidance practices "immoral", baristas arriving for work were told to sign revised employment terms, which include the removal of paid 30-minute lunch breaks and paid sick leave for the first day of illness.
