The brains behind the schemes was said to be Iain Abrahams, a tall Scot with an encyclopaedic knowledge of tax and accounting law.
His father worked as chief solicitor for the Inland Revenue; once his father retired, Moses put an inherited knowledge of tax law to good use by becoming junior counsel to the organisation.
He reckons that the Swiss are still recognised as the best in the world at private banking, in terms of service and knowledge of tax laws in many jurisdictions.
The seller is a former high-ranking tax expert with an in-depth knowledge of tax secrets in the German and European financial industries, and is reported to have negotiated with tax authorities for more than a year over the information, according to the German financial daily Handelsblatt.
Even in developed countries, knowledge of tax policy can be surprisingly limited.
This finding is in line with prior evidence and confirms that audit teams benefit from client-specific knowledge of tax teams (Christensen et al. 2015; Kinney et al. 2004).
"It's targeted at individuals who are comfortable doing their own taxes and have a basic level of knowledge of tax law," says Timothy Hugo, executive director of the Free File Alliance, the tax prep industry trade group, which coordinates FreeFile with the IRS.
For example, if you have knowledge of tax law, volunteer to help others with their income taxes.
For example, salaries and wages, their insurance and retirement benefits, as well as analyzing the extent of your knowledge of tax related issues.
But TurboTax now acknowledges that many do-it-yourselfers have general knowledge of their taxes and want a quicker way to complete them.
