{"id":339,"date":"2007-01-10T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2007\/01\/10\/tax-justice-positive-3-tax-compliance\/"},"modified":"2007-01-10T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T08:50:00","slug":"tax-justice-positive-3-tax-compliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2007\/01\/10\/tax-justice-positive-3-tax-compliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax justice positive 3: Tax compliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tax justice means being in favour of tax compliance. This requires that:<\/p>\n<p>a. Taxpayers should seek to comply with the spirit of the law when managing their affairs;<br \/>b. Full voluntary and consistent disclosure should be made by tax payers to all tax authorities with interest in their affairs;<br \/>c. Taxpayers seek to declare their income in the territory where it can be best determined that the economic benefit of the transactions they undertook arose, irrespective of the tax consequence;<br \/>d. Tax payers do not use tax havens, trusts or other artificial structures to manipulate their taxation liabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Being in favour of tax compliance means that we are opposed to tax avoidance and evasion. Tax avoidance and evasion include:<\/p>\n<p>a. Taxation fraud, in all its forms;<br \/>b. Seeking to manipulate taxation law for the benefit of the taxpayer;<br \/>c. Taxation arbitrage;<br \/>d. Incomplete disclosure of taxation matters;<br \/>e. Inconsistent disclosure of transactions between differing taxation authorities;<br \/>f. Misrepresentation of the nature of transactions;<br \/>g. The use of tax havens;<br \/>h. The relocation of transactions for taxation benefit;<br \/>i. The use of artificial structures to secure a taxation benefit.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tax justice means being in favour of tax compliance. This requires that: a. Taxpayers should seek to comply with the spirit of the law when<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2007\/01\/10\/tax-justice-positive-3-tax-compliance\/\"><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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","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=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}