TAXTOPIA: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game

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was only doing what countless other UHNW (ultra high net worth) individuals are doing all over the world right now – just look at how difficult it has been for Western nations to seize the yachts of sanctioned Russian oligarchs”. Moyles admitted he’d made a “mistake”, but insisted he’d simply “acted on advice I was given” to use a scheme which he’d been “assured was legal”. Barlow similarly apologised and said he’d since appointed “a new team of accountants”. One of the hardest hits in the book stems from our rebel’s experience of a tax fixer in Australia who used transfer pricing for Papua New Guinean timber. He writes: To not just combat tax dodging, but wipe out the tax unfairness that aids it, perhaps the Rebel Accountant is onto something. In TAXTOPIA a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naif to skilled tax consultant -and in doing so blows the lid on the murky world of making the tax burdens of the ultra-wealthy disappear.

It’s beautifully simple, and we don’t get to hear the downsides or difficulties, but that can be forgiven. We also don’t get to know what happened to our hero. I’d like to think he was out there still rebelling, perhaps advising the good guys. Taxtopia’s anonymous author has done the impossible – created a hilarious and deeply troubling expose about how the world’s shady tax system is exploited and proves what we always suspected – that our tax system is rigged against us. Read it and weep.’– Geraint Anderson author of City Boy Now, that’s people being done by at the top of the profession – tax partners earning a million a year advising another multimillionaire how to pay less tax. How is our tax system so screwy that they can do that?”The book is enormously readable … I would very much recommend reading Taxtopia because it’s the most hilarious book about tax I’ve ever read!’–Siân Pattenden, The Bunker

Ongoing Covid restrictions, reduced air and freight capacity, high volumes and winter weather conditions are all impacting transportation and local delivery across the globe. But nothing happened – “Ernst & Young’s profits went up and Lewis was knighted by the Queen”. That’s because when HM Treasury investigated the Isle of Man leasing company, it found no evidence of VAT fraud as it had In the topsy-turvy world of tax avoidance, you can get richer by buying a yacht, the world’s biggest exporter of coffee is Switzerland, and billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and the Duke of Westminster often pay less tax than you do.Cheryl Tweedy: The former Girls Aloud singer’s personal firm was told to pay HMRC a large bill after a judge ruled last year that it was wrong in paying capital gains tax, rather than income tax and national insurance. Big-name and big-money disputes like this have provoked schadenfreude-fuelled headlines for years, often involving far more complicated disputes over alleged “dodges”. Often it’s HMRC that wins. Effectively the richer you are the more you get to decide whether you’d rather pay tax or give to charity (or in some cases neither).” In your Viva Engage settings, you can view networks, account activity, applications, and change your notification settings and language preferences.