eZ is clueless. Of course tax advice is sensible and necessary for many people and enterprises. Tax can be complex and that is why accountants are required to give tax advice. I doubt that any ever deliberately advise anything illegal.
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Defending your practice with passion(?) is fine but not all accountants, that would be inaccurate. Accountants specialise in many different areas. Some do plain vanilla tax returns like you by the sounds of it;others do their darnedest to find loopholes and ways to minimalise and avoid taxes as elZ has said. The fact that most of your clients pay more than their fair share of tax is rather bizarre; would they be happy if they knew that?! More details why could be interesting.
Technically correct i guess.Minimalise, reduce, loopholes,interpretations etc etc.
Ah no I should clarify, yes some were the plain vanilla type clients, others wanted ways to structure their affairs to best suit their needs and minimise the legal tax they had to pay. Quite a diverse lot really. No none paid more tax than they should have. Again should clarify, most paid more tax than they received in benefits from the state... so using my opinion, legally paid more than what I think is a fair share of tax. Tax minimisation is perfectly legal, avoidance is a bit of a grey area and evasion is well just illegal and ends you up in jail in many cases. I leant towards the minimisation, avoided the evasion and avoidance parts :) hope that helps there JT.
I don't think so. Those are the types of things Labour Party uses to generate funds from unnamed benefactors - so must be productive wealth: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/95891686