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Anti-avoidance summary


Produced by a Tolley Personal Tax expert
Personal Tax
Guidance
tag-icon Spring Budget 2024

Anti-avoidance summary


Produced by a Tolley Personal Tax expert
Personal Tax
Guidance
tag-icon Spring Budget 2024
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This guidance note looks at anti-avoidance, the boundary between tax planning and avoidance, and the position of advisers and their clients.

Overview

There are two main areas of significance for advisers as regards anti-avoidance. These are professional standards and regulation, and legislation and case law.

Professional standards and regulation

Members of the main professional bodies (AAT, ACCA, ATT, CIOT, ICAS, ICAEW and STEP) are obliged to apply an approach to tax planning included in the Professional Conduct in Relation to Taxation.

This guidance includes the mandatory principles of integrity, objectivity, professional competence and due case, confidentiality and professional behaviour. It also includes a section on Standards for tax planning.

The standard sets out that tax planning must:

  1. •

    be client specific

  2. •

    be lawful

  3. •

    provide sufficient disclosure and transparency as regards the tax authorities

  4. •

    not create, encourage or promote

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