Path: utzoo!censor!isgtec!robert
From: robert@isgtec.UUCP (Robert Osborne)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: TAX REVOLT NOW!!
Summary: Tax Loopholes Closed!
Keywords: GAR
Message-ID: <117@isgtec.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 89 22:54:35 GMT
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Reply-To: robert@isgtec.UUCP (Robert Osborne)
Distribution: can
Organization: I.S.G. Technologies, Toronto, Ontario
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Hi Kim! 
>How about looking for tax shelters?  That's a more direct solution.
>No amount of bitching is going to change the government's greed.

I'm not sure if this is what you meant by "tax shelter", but the
most recent tax act contains a rule called GAR (General Anti-Avoidance Rule)
which makes it illegal to seek out and take advantage of loop-holes in
the tax act.  (I'm not exactly sure of how this works, maybe David Sherman
could say something on this). Sort of a law ordering adherance to
"spirit of the law" as opposed to "letter of the law".

This is great, now "ignorance of the law AND of the law as the Tax Department
interprets it" is not a legal defence.  Imagine the implications if
this rule was extended to all laws, not just the TAX act.

Rob.
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Robert A. Osborne                  ...uunet!mnetor!lsuc!isgtec!robert
                                          ...utzoo!lsuc!isgtec!robert
ISG Technologies Inc. 3030 Orlando Dr. Mississauga. Ont. Can. L4V 1S8