Sentence examples for designed to avoid tax from inspiring English sources

Take That's lawyers say the bandmates believed the investments were legitimate enterprises and not schemes designed to avoid tax, and that all four named pay "significant tax".

In response to The Times's investigation, the Revenue told this newspaper that it believes that the partnerships are designed to avoid tax.

Barlow and two other members of the pop group Take That have been accused of investing £26m in a scheme designed to avoid tax.

For some years many ordinary Icelanders have grown suspicious about wealthy Icelanders and their use of offshore companies, concerned such arrangements are designed to avoid tax.

But Mr Cameron refused to be drawn on separate claims that Gary Barlow and other members of the Take That pop group had also put their money in a scheme designed to avoid tax.

Last year Charlie Elphicke, the Conservative MP for Dover and a former tax lawyer, tabled a series of amendments to the finance bill that would make it illegal to help clients to invest in schemes designed to avoid tax.

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In this case it was that the Tax Court did not have jurisdiction, the IRS caught up with them too late and that the complex transactions were just regular business diversification as opposed to artificial transactions designed to avoid taxes.

But the company's value and operations relative to its number of employees raise the possibility that it is a shell company designed to avoid taxes, according to tax experts.

Tax experts from PricewaterhouseCoopers created a seven-tier, international corporate structure which MPs allege was designed to avoid UK tax on six of London's best known office blocks bought for £670m.

A spokesman for Icebreaker denied the partnerships were designed to avoid paying tax, saying they were created to invest money in the music industry for taxable profit.