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Insights on the latest UK GAAR Guidance

April 29, 2013
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A paradox of the General Anti-Abuse Rule (GAAR) is that it is meant to be narrowly focussed, targeted at abusive tax avoidance schemes and yet some of the threshold tests – “one of the main purposes” and “tax arrangements” - could describe conventional everyday planning.

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