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

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Compare this with how benefits abuse is handled and the situation seems even more unjust. For every person prosecuted for tax fraud in the UK between 2009 and 2019, 23 were pursued over benefits fraud, according to the think tank TaxWatch – and yet tax offences cost the country nine times more. 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: Even though the Russian invasion of Ukraine has prompted a new Economic Crime Bill which will supposedly require full disclosure of property ownership, there are (the usual) loopholes. 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”.

All kinds of firms are involved in this duel with HMRC, he says. “You get specialist one- and two-man operations that spring up and go: ‘Here’s some clever way of avoiding stamp duty land tax.’ But on the industrial scale, you get large firms advising their clients in very lawful ways how to pay less tax.” Written with sharp wit and over-brimming with inside secrets, the anonymous author shows us that not only does the global tax system encourage dubious practice which favours the rich, but that it was specifically founded with that in mind.If you sign into Viva Engage via Microsoft 365, select View and update your profile in Office Delve to change your profile.

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!' - Sian Pattenden, The Bunker 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 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.

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The story of insurance right now seems to be a gloomy one. It’s getting more expensive and complicated, with the upshot tat younger people may The rebel is unsurprised by this. “No accountant or lawyer is going to advise a client to do something illegal, at least no legitimate one,” he says.

Obviously she’s gone for the second option. Fair enough. That’s what a tax adviser would recommend. We’d all love to pay a 0.3 per cent tax rate, I would too, but it shows the non-dom law is dodgy – and it’s absurd there’s only one person in the country who could change that law, and she’s married to him. 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 If you have ever paid an accountant, they have charged you what they think they can get away with, not what the work is worth. Always complain about your fee.”Simon Bain is a multi-award-winning business and financial journalist who worked in newspapers for 39 years until semi-retiring in 2016 to work for Young Money Agency.

When it comes to the accountants and lawyers who help evaders, the number of them facing justice is even lower – with just eight cases being prosecuted in the past two years, it was disclosed this month. In TAXTOPIA a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naïf 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.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