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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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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Highlights from our first 5 months 173 accountants have used the TaxFitness software to produce 790 Tax Plans. Phase 2 software upgrade completed. (Phase 3 & 4 is in development bringing more automation and ease of use). Over 200 tax agents and accountants now use our website as a tax planning resource every week. …
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Each of our 225 tax planning strategies have now been updated to include relevant ATO legislation, cases, tax rulings, and ATO Interpretative decisions.
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Capital city: Amsterdam Currency: Euro (€) (EUR) Population: 17.1 million Language: Dutch, Frisian & English GDP …
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Certain public and non-profit hospitals, ambulance services, public benevolent institutions (PBIs), religious institutions, and health promotion charities (HPCs) are eligible for an FBT exemption. The benefits it provides its employees are exempt from FBT if the total grossed-up value of certain benefits for each employee during the FBT year is equal to, or less than,…
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Community attitudes towards tax avoidance vary from approval through neutrality to outright hostility. Attitudes may vary depending on the steps taken in the avoidance scheme, or the perceived unfairness of the tax being avoided. Tax avoidance by corporations in the UK came to national attention in 2012, when MPs singled out Google, Amazon.com and Starbucks…
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Capital city: Dublin Currency: Euro (€) & Pound Sterling Population: 6.4 million Language: English, Irish, Ulster Scots Dutch GDP …
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Taxpayers operating a winery receive all the standard business deductions plus the additional primary production related deductions including: Immediate deduction for the cost of fencing and water facilities such as dams, tanks, bores, irrigation channels, pumps, water towers and windmills. Access to the Farm Management Deposit Scheme. Tax averaging. In addition, since 2004 wine makers…
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Tax avoidance has been around as long as taxes. One historic example of tax avoidance still evident today was the payment of window tax. It was introduced in England and Wales in 1696 with the aim of imposing tax on the relative prosperity of individuals as the bigger the house, the more windows it was…
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