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Cyber Pointillism: Two Colors, Infinite Worlds @elgnart

I’ve been playing with dots again. Not the paint-on-canvas dots of Seurat, not the classical pointillism with its quiet nineteenth-century precision—but digital atoms of color, each pixel a thought, each cluster a rhythm. I call it Cyber Pointillism.

There is something endlessly seductive about limiting yourself—for me, right now, it’s two colors. Just two. Not three, not a gradient of twenty—two. Black and neon green. White and cobalt blue. Somehow, this constraint liberates me more than any palette ever could. Every dot becomes a decision, every space a silent shout. It’s minimalism meeting infinity.

Hey, what's that burning smell?

DOTAS (Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes) – Investopedia

[ad_1] DEFINITION of ‘DOTAS (Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes)’ DOTAS (Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes) is the acronym used for the procedure introduced by the UK government in 2004 aimed at minimizing tax avoidance. Tax avoidance in the UK, unlike tax evasion, is not illegal since it involves using the available tax laws to reduce one’s tax burden. However, the government is actively…

The Counter Avoidance Team within HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is sending out Accelerated Payment Notices (APN) to users of EBT avoidance schemes. As at 13 March 2015, HMRC had already issued 7,712 notices with a value of £1.6bn.

A typical APN will read as follows:

Accelerated payment notice

Issued under Part 4, Chapter 3 of the Finance Act 2014

Notice for the year ended 5 April 20xx

Amount due in…

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) published a consultation document http://abytx.co/1dOAvdc on accelerated tax payments on 24 January 2014. This is part of a number of measures designed to tackle tax avoidance and was published on the same day as the summary of responses http://abytx.co/1gHFjBB to the August 2013 consultation on the new regime for ‘high risk promoters’.

As announced in Autumn Statement…