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Tax and morality

15 February 2022 / Graham Webber
Issue: 4828 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
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The moral of the story

In ‘Toe the line’ (Taxation 13 January 2022 page 20) John Gould produced a fine article looking at the Pandora Papers the latest ‘leak’ of confidential material and asked whether the role of the tax adviser now includes being a moral compass for clients.

For me this immediately raises two questions.

Is it correct that a tax adviser should impose their own moral code upon a client?

Is the correct measure of a moral code that used by the authorities and if so who determines and polices that?

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