The Observer has featured on tax issues this morning it seems. In their special report on tax avoidance they set the scene, saying: The debate is now raging over whether these companies are the happy beneficiaries of a tax system knitted with loopholes, or the malicious purveyors of smoke-and-mirror accounting. HM Revenue and Customs claims
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Ed Miliband has adopted the tax justice agenda. According to the Observer this morning: Ed Miliband has vowed to rip up the rule book as prime minister and go it alone if there is no international consensus to tackle multinationals engaging in massive tax avoidance. In an interview with the Observer, the Labour leader urged David Cameron to find agreement at the G8 summit
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The Tax Justice Network and Tipping Point Film Fund are jointly organising a day of activity in London on Saturday 8th June designed to engage all those  - public and campaigners alike – who would like to know more about why tax matters to society and, therefore, the need  to intensify the spotlight on tax
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The latest edition of Tax Justice Focus explores and explodes some of the most persistent and powerful myths in contemporary economics. Earlier this year we teamed up with the New Economics Foundation in London to produce a series of essays - Mythbusters - which are currently being published weekly in the Guardian newspaper, and can be found here on the nef website.  In this newsletter we explore
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It’s not me saying that today (although I do, often). It’s the Observer, in its editorial. The comment it makes covers so much ground I may draw on it several times (other commitments permitting). But what is clear is that this paper, at least, has comprehended the issues. It understands the argument the Tax Justice Network, with a very
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This article by Dan Hind and me is just out on the Guardian website. It is the next in the Tax Justice Network / New Economics Foundation Mythbuster series. ______________ The case for tax havens is like an egg. There is a hard shell of technical-sounding claims, jargon and appeals to high principle. There is a white of intimidation
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I guess it was almost inevitable that the Tax Justice Network would be drawn into the row on tax evasion in Jersey. And it has been, with Geoff Cook of Jersey Finance coming forward to throw the insults. As he says on his blog: Tax evasion, avoidance, sham trusts and dark doings are all alleged, sprinkled with supporting
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In April 2013′s Taxcast: ‘offshore leaks’ blows the lid off secrecy for sale, the G20 endorse greater transparency (but let’s not get too excited), Luxembourg agrees to lift its banking secrecy, Austria next? And the Taxcast goes to India and takes a look at fake foreign direct investment. Produced by @Naomi_Fowler on www.tackletaxhavens.com/taxcast

I noted yesterday that Geoff Cook of Jersey Finance had been quick to ridicule the EU’s drive against tax evasion because it quoted my research, which he claimed was all wrong without (of course) providing any real evidence relating to that work as to why that was the case. That reminded me of similar past episodes so
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