As the Guardian reported yesterday: The UK’s offshore financial centres must fall in behind plans to stop “dirty money” by publishing registers of corporate ownership,
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HMRC’s steady decline continues
As the FT noted a couple of days ago: The number of HM Revenue & Customs investigations into serious tax fraud and avoidance has fallen
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Are the rich going to leave?
In the run-up to the budget, I have seen claims that as many as one in five people are planning to leave the UK because
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies’ proposed reform of capital gains is a long way from the reforms we need
The Institute for Fiscal Studies issued a new report on the reform of capital gains tax yesterday, some parts of which are welcome. Firstly, they
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The tax avoiders are working overtime to save the domicile rule
The Guardian carried an article yesterday in which suggested that HM Treasury projections suggested that the proposed abolition of the so-called non-domicile rule by Labour,
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Will Reeves reform HM Revenue & Customs?
Yahoo News appears to be just about the only media with this news story this morning: Tax dodgers will be targeted by Rachel Reeves, who
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Claiming an unethical action is legally permitted has always been the defence of the desperate
For many years I spent a great deal of time dealing with the activities of those who used tax havens, whether they be the so-called
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£4 million from Cayman? That will do nicely, thank you
As Open Democracy has revealed: The Labour Party’s largest-ever donation came from a Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund with shares worth hundreds of millions of pounds
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There is nothing in a tax haven
In this morning’s video I address the topic that, long ago, really got this blog going, which is tax havens. I note that I keep
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