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Black means white in tax wonderland


HIDESIGHT In the Alice in Wonderland world of tax law, the courts can determine that Parliament intended the opposite of the law that Parliament actually passed.

Rodney Hide
Fri, 26 Jul 2013

HIDESIGHT

I realise last week’s column may have left you a little rattled. That’s because I described the new legal requirement that you pay the government not what the law says you must but rather the mysterious amount that Parliament intended that you pay.

Indeed, in the Alice in

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Rodney Hide
Fri, 26 Jul 2013
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