Tax Avoidance And Tax Evasion 3 / 5

Tax EVASION is ILLEGAL

The main forms of tax evasion are:

  • Not giving all information

  • Giving false information

Tax AVOIDANCE is LEGAL

It's arranging your income to minimise tax - although HMRC are introducing anti-avoidance legislation to lower the advantages to the taxpayer

Tax avoidance features..

  • No misleading information given

  • Can use loopholes in the tax system

The General Anti-Abuse Rule (GAAR)

This fights artificial and abusive schemes (unreasonable courses of action) which are used to avoid paying tax

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