For those wanting to understand this Thursday’s PAC hearing with Google might I suggest reading ‘Over here and under taxed’? Available here.

I’ve been suggesting Easter reading; here’s my latest suggestion: That, of course, is my ebook that focuses on the story of Google, Amazon and Starbucks and most especially on what can be done about international tax avoidance. You can get it from any of these links.  

For those wondering what they’d wish for in the budget might I recommend Chapter 8 of ‘Over here and under-taxed‘ which offers a whole raft of tax reforms for the corporate sector. Available from your ‘favourite’ ebook supplier, or here. For more radical income tax and benefits reform suggestions you’ll have to wait until next
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I have been arguing for country-by-country reporting for a decade. This is what I had to say about it in my ebook ‘Over here and under-taxed‘: One reason why tax avoidance by multinational corporations has gone on for so long is that they have been able to conceal it. Multinationals often hide what they’re doing (as
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  I have to admit to amusement that Richard, Nick and I take the top slots.  

My new ebook ‘Over here and under-taxed‘ is published this morning. Links you can get it from are here. It won’t cost you much. The book is 30,000 or so words. I was asked to write an analysis of the Google, Amazon and Starbucks story, and that in part is what I’ve done. However, be warned, this
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George Osborne has said he wants to end multinational company tax avoidance. He was explicit: he's tackling the likes of Google, Amazon and Starbucks. He needs to read chapter 8 of 'Over here and under-taxed' – my new e book, out on Monday.  

My new ebook – Over here and under-taxed – has been delayed by a week. However, Random House have now given me some locations where it can be pre-ordered for download. They are: Amazon UK Amazon.com Apple Random House I’d encourage the last. But if you are a Kindle or iTunes user then the others are for you, and neither
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The FT reports this morning: An activist hedge fund has thrown down the gauntlet to Apple, pushing it to consider new ways to return billions of dollars to shareholders after the fall of the iPhone maker’s share price by more than a third in recent months. The decision by David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital to sue the world’s most valuable company
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