Roydon Snelgar

Manual Systems vs Software Tools

16 August 2017

We purchase tools to make a job easier, quicker, and ensure it’s completed to a high standard. This is the case whether buying tools to fix some household chore or provide tax planning services to clients. No practice operating today can be efficient or effective doing any practice task manually. It doesn’t matter what the…

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Dubai

11 August 2017

Capital city:               Dubai      Currency:                   Dirham (AED)  Population:               2.8m    Language:                 English    GDP                  …

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Tax Planning Strategy 171 | Income Splitting

10 August 2017

    This strategy involves ‘evening up’ the marginal tax rates between spouses. Tax is saved if income can be moved from the spouse in the highest tax bracket to the spouse with the lowest tax bracket.  The income splitting rules are: All investments earning income should be in the name of the lower-earning spouse…

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Six Tax Planning Options

9 August 2017

Accounting practices have six options available to them in relation to providing tax planning services. Some practices will choose one option (strategic pathway) and others several. In addition, over time different practices will change their focus and add/or delete different options. No one pathway will fit or suit all practices. The six tax planning service…

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Barbados

4 August 2017

Capital city:               Bridgetown      Currency:                   Barbadian dollar ($) (BBD)  Population:               277,821   Language:                 English & Bajan  GDP            …

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Tax Planning Strategy 162 | Endorsement Income

3 August 2017

Most forms of income earned by professional sportspeople is personal services income (PSI) and is assessed to the sportsperson individually. This includes salary, competition winnings, prizes, and appearance fees. This income cannot be split with family members or taxed at company rates.  In contrast, all endorsement income is genuine business income generated by the goodwill…

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Scale of Tax Avoidance

2 August 2017

The US Public Interest Research Group said in 2014 that the United States loses roughly $184 billion per year due to corporations such as Pfizer, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Citigroup using offshore tax havens to avoid paying US taxes. In 2010-2012 Pfizer paid no US income taxes despite earning $43 billion. Microsoft held $76.4 billion…

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"You’d be stupid not to try to cut your tax bill and those that don’t are stupid in business"

- Bono: U2