commend fiscal policy | instruct on tax policy | advise on tax policy | commend tax policy

fiscal and policy analyst | tax policy adviser | pecunary consultant | tax policy analyst

advise on tax plans | give recommendations on tax planning | advise on tax planning | counsel on tax planning

advisor on women's policy [ adviser on women's policy | women's policy advisor | women's policy adviser ]

policy advisor [ policy adviser | management adviser | management consultant | executive consultant ]

Bureau of European Policy Advisers [ BEPA | Group of Policy Advisers | Forward Studies Unit ]

fiscal policy [ taxation policy | tax policy | taxation(UNBIS) ]

taxation policy | tax policy

Group of Policy Advisers | GOPA [Abbr.]

tax consultant | tax adviser | tax advisor

Mr. Speaker, another Conservative insider, Jim Love, was appointed chair of the Royal Canadian Mint in 2006, and appointed as a tax policy adviser by his buddy, the Minister of Finance, in 2007.

As respected international tax commentator Jeffrey Owens, current senior policy adviser at Ernst & Young and former director for tax policy at the OECD, has noted, “Quite simply, the OECD model has established itself as the means of settling the most common problems that arise in the field of international taxation”.

As noted by respected international tax commentator Jeffrey Owens, currently Senior Policy Adviser at Ernst & Young and former Director for Tax Policy at the OECD: " Quite simply, the OECD model has established itself as the means of settling the most common problems that arise in the field of international taxation" .

33. Stresses the crucial role of large accounting firms, including the ‘Big Four’, in the design and marketing of rulings and tax avoidance schemes that exploit mismatches between national legislations; stresses that those firms, which seem to derive a considerable amount of their revenue from tax services, to dominate most Member States’ auditing markets and to prevail in global tax advising services, constitute a narrow oligopoly; considers that such a situation cannot continue without damaging the functioning of the single market in the fields of activity of the ‘Big Four’; draws attention to the conflict of interest resulting from ...[+++] the juxtaposition, within the same firms, of tax advice and consulting activities intended, on the one hand, for tax administrations and, on the other, for MNCs’ tax planning services, which exploit the weaknesses of national tax laws; takes the view that good practices in this respect must be promoted and that existing codes of conduct should be improved; questions, nevertheless, the effectiveness of corporate codes of conduct and corporate social responsibility policies in tackling this issue; underlines the fact that tax rulings have become, in the EU and worldwide, a common business practice, not only in order to obtain legal certainty or advantageous tax deals, but also in cases where legislative provisions do not allow any room for interpretation; is concerned by estimations from the tax advice industry that a mere 50 % chance of being lawful is sufficient for a tax planning scheme to be recommended to clients ;