{"id":19110,"date":"2013-02-01T12:33:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T12:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=19110"},"modified":"2013-02-01T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T12:33:25","slug":"charities-and-tax-abuse-an-example-from-the-gaar-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/02\/01\/charities-and-tax-abuse-an-example-from-the-gaar-consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"Charities and tax abuse: an example from the GAAR consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0government appears to know that\u00a0<a title=\"Can charities be used for tax avoidance? It seems so\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/02\/01\/can-charities-be-used-for-tax-avoidance-it-seems-so\/\" target=\"_blank\">charities\u00a0can be abused for tax\u00a0purposes<\/a>, as I have suggested is possible this morning. I know\u00a0that\u00a0because last July in <a href=\"http:\/\/customs.hmrc.gov.uk\/channelsPortalWebApp\/channelsPortalWebApp.portal?_nfpb=true&amp;_pageLabel=pageLibrary_ConsultationDocuments&amp;propertyType=document&amp;columns=1&amp;id=HMCE_PROD1_032113\" target=\"_blank\">their GAAR consultation<\/a> they inlcuded the following example of an abusive tax arrangemnt, which would seem to be based on facts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Example 3: \u201cGifts\u201d to charity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This scheme was another wholly artificial arrangement where a taxpayer, who sustains no economic loss, claims relief for a gift to a charity which in reality receives almost no value.<\/p>\n<p>An individual acquires gilts, which are \u2018gifted\u2019 to a charity once the charity has granted put options to two trusts. The beneficiary of the trusts is the individual making the \u2018gift\u2019. The put options allow one of the two trusts to acquire the gilts at 1% of the market value subject to certain conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The gilts are then sold by the trusts, and the sale proceeds are returned to the individual by way of interest free loans.<\/p>\n<p>The individual claims relief for the gift of the shares. By setting the market value of the gilts against his income for the year, the individual effectively receives relief at 40% of the market value of the gilts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can't find such a case being litigated. I do suspect HMRC had seen\u00a0something\u00a0like this. Remarkably little attention was given to the example at the time. I hope more might be given to it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0government appears to know that\u00a0charities\u00a0can be abused for tax\u00a0purposes, as I have suggested is possible this morning. I know\u00a0that\u00a0because last July in their GAAR consultation<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/02\/01\/charities-and-tax-abuse-an-example-from-the-gaar-consultation\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}