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SenseNotSoCommon
Look, there's a bandwagon!
smithinjapan
Yeah, knowing how Japan does things they'll probably suggest the easiest way to avoid tax-evasion is to silence the people who publish the lists of people who do it. Because so far all I've seen are a lot of people saying, "I had no idea I was doing that!", or "it was perfectly legal!" or the same old BS that people here will let slide but that won't work internationally. This forming of new schemes, in any case, will effectively forgive big companies and individuals for having done it up to now, saying, "From now on...".
FizzBit
Squirrel !!
Anything to avoid talking about how governments tax us too much...
wildwest
On a personal note, I have avoided paying high taxes with a low income.
fxgai
So, possibly there has been no financial wrongdoing.
Best investigate all these possibly innocent entities and people anyway, and divert the public's eyes from the mismanagement of public finances overseen by governments across the world.
Spanki
Look within parliament for starters!
Aly Rustom
so true.
as_the_crow_flies
Change that "have" to "has" and you have the nub of this. Most of those at this meeting should be under the spotlight themselves. They have plenty of "direct knowledge".
Yubaru
But please, first off, investigate the investigators as Japan does not have a sterling record when it comes to public officials and money.
commanteer
And who will investigate the financial wrongdoings of the government?
Frederic Bastiat
It is everyone's moral duty to themselves and their family to minimize their tax exposure within the tax laws.
nath
JK Rowling - who is extremely rich - disagrees: http://www.businessinsider.com/jk-rowling-on-high-taxes-2012-9
randomnator
I think Japan would be better passing a resolution to eliminate wasteful spending as a humanitarian gift to all tax payers around the globe who are supporting ineptitude with their hard earned money.
kurisupisu
So, more control and rules, guess who will be under the thumb?
Hint:it won't be the elite....,,,,,
GW
Perhaps its time Japan SERIOUSLY audited the 70% of J-companies who consistently pay little or no tax for decades.........in Japan you don't have to go offshore to avoid taxes 70% of companies do this all the time here!!!
Citizen2012
For sure Japanese government must know a lot about "corruption" , can't wait to learn what will be their plan....
Frederic Bastiat
Why should I, or anyone for that matter, give a hoot about what JK Rowling thinks? She's rich. That's nice. She can choose to donate 50% of her annual income if she likes, that's her option, or more! That's called charity. Requiring the forfeiture of one's property (money is property) is theft.
Moonraker
Seems like all those economic fundamentalists have a couple of places which will suit them fine and where they can set up a company and pay no tax. They are the Cayman Islands. Or the British Virgin Islands. Perhaps they should all be encouraged to move to these places. But maybe they don't need encouragement since by their reckoning these countries will become capitalist superpower paradises. Off you go now.
itsonlyrocknroll
Please J K Rowling, accountants will deploy avoidance toolkit through intangible assets - IAS 38 — Intangible Assets Overview and history ...Perfectly above board
http://www.iasplus.com/en/standards/ias/ias38
Duck70
It was an indiscriminate leak of personal financial information.
If any laws were broken then wouldn't it be fair to try them in a court of law, or is trial by media fairer?
dbsaiya
Ha! Another justification for the invasive My Number policy.
Kobe White Bar Owner
Elites talking about how "curb tax evasion" really? The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. Arthur C. Clarke
Bob Sneider
its too obvious that japan is trying to seem like it's on the "good guys" side here, when Japanese politicians and corporations were on the side of tax evasion