“…Intuit’s QuickBooks accounting product remains a steady moneymaker, but in the past two decades TurboTax, its tax preparation product, has driven the company’s steadily growing profits and made it a Wall Street phenom. When Smith took over in 2008, TurboTax was a market leader, but only a small portion of Americans filed their taxes online. By 2019, nearly 40% of U.S. taxpayers filed online and some 40 million of them did so with TurboTax, far more than with any other product. But the success of TurboTax rests on a shaky foundation, one that could collapse overnight if the U.S. government did what most wealthy countries did long ago and made tax filing simple and free for most citizens…”
Manhattan Institute, Issues 2020: Taxing the “Rich” Won’t Pay for Politicians’ Promises
The carousel of VAT abuse: Dozens arrested in connection with multi-million tax evasion schemes
This month, authorities from Europe and beyond have intensified
their efforts to crack down on tax evasion.
- UK government pays millions to firms that use tax havens (21 Oct 2019)
- Demos Report - Value Added: How better government procurement can build a fairer Britain (21 Oct 2019)
- Entrepreneurs' tax break fails to boost investment, finds IFS (21 Oct 2019)
- IFS Report - Low rates of capital gains tax on business income lead to large tax savings but do not boost investment (21 Oct 2019)
- Are US billionaires really going to pay more tax? (21 Oct 2019)
- Top fund manager forced to resign after BBC investigation (21 Oct 2019)
- Tax commitments rewritten in Brexit deal (21 Oct 2019)
- A new Brexit deal - what has changed and what happens next? (21 Oct 2019)
- The Corporate Offence of Failure to Prevent the Facilitation of tax evasion (21 Oct 2019)
- 362 perfectly acceptable ways to avoid tax (21 Oct 2019)
- UK Government publishes Brexit bill (21 Oct 2019)
- The UK is set to give up the best deal any EU member state has ever had (21 Oct 2019)
- How companies use debt to line their pockets (18 Oct 2019)
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) strongly disagrees with the allegation by the ‘Your Right to Know’ coalition of media outlets saying, “The Tax Office can take money directly out of people’s accounts but you’re not allowed to know”.
Mr Kent Nguyen was found to have unlawfully created, operated and benefited from a fraudulent self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) named Tot Form Super Fund. The fund did not comply with the relevant protocol, procedures and requirements of superannuation legislation to make it a legal SMSF.
Between 2007 and 2009, Mr Nguyen used the fund to arrange the unlawful early release of superannuation funds for a number of people in the community. Many of the people were in financial trouble and were approached by friends who told them ‘they knew someone’ who could help.
In each of the 25 cases, the individual’s super balance that was held within a retail superannuation fund was rolled over to Tot Form Super Fund, with the total amount of funds unlawfully withdrawn exceeding $700,000. Mr Nguyen retained a significant portion of this amount telling his clients that the money had been paid to the ATO as tax.
ATO Assistant Commissioner Ian Read said the sentence handed down today demonstrates that promoters who encourage illegal early access to superannuation will be held accountable.
Daniel Hemel (Chicago) & David A. Weisbach (Chicago), The Behavioral Elasticity of Tax Revenue:
This article presents a new measure of the efficiency consequences of tax policies and explains how this new measure can shed light on a wide range of tax law debates. We build upon the “elasticity of taxable income” approach pioneered by public finance scholars over the last quarter century and extend that approach to address complex tax systems with multiple rates, multiple bases, and administrative and compliance costs. The resulting measure — the behavioral elasticity of taxable income, or BETR — captures the change in real resources available to society caused by any marginal change in tax rates, the tax base, or tax enforcement. We argue that the BETR can serve as a guide to a wide range of tax policy issues, and we illustrate the BETR’s utility by applying it to questions such as the proper treatment of mixed personal/business expenses, the appropriate aggressiveness of efforts to address tax shelters, and the optimal mix of audits, recordkeeping and reporting requirements, and penalties.
The Dangerous Push For More Technology In Schools International Business Times
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Following up on my previous post, James Comey's Five Principles Of Ethical Leadership For Law School Deans: The Nevada Independent, UNLV Paid Comey $54,000, Funded by Donors, For Visit to Law School and Dinner with VIPs:
According to a contract between the university and a booking agency representing Comey, the former FBI director’s September 24 visit to UNLV and speech to the university, “The Ethical Leader,” cost the university’s law school a pretty penny, but a spokeswoman for the university said that all costs were paid by a donor and that Comey reduced his normal speaking fee for the event.