GAAR - Trinidad & Tobago - Iatj.net
GAAR - Trinidad & Tobago - Iatj.net
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Historical antecedents<br />
• Income tax was introduced by William Pitt in 1799 to<br />
“prevent evasion and fraud, the presumption founded<br />
upon the Assessed Taxes should be laid aside and that a<br />
general tax shall be imposed on all the leading branches of<br />
income.”<br />
• The British Parliament recognised almost from inception<br />
that the taxpayer had an inherent right to employ legal<br />
means to minimise his liablity to taxation even if the<br />
exercise of that right defeated the spirit or intention on<br />
which that law was founded (‘loopholes’). However, it also<br />
considered it proper and justifiable to initiate steps to<br />
inhibit such spirit or intention.<br />
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