I have been blogging rather a lot about the new Oxford paper on tax avoidance and tax evasion in developing countries today, but issues keep
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Defending the Price of Offshore
I was the main author of a Tax Justice Network report published in 2005 called The Price of Offshore. In it we argued that $11.5trn
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The tax gap cannot be calculated from micro-based data
The Oxford University report on tax evasion and tax avoidance, to which I have already referred, makes a number of quite extraordinary claims. One is
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The Oxford study on tax abuse in developing countries
The FT noted yesterday that: A … study, by the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, says tax losses frommultinationals shifting profits that are down
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Tackling the Taxpayer’s Alliance
I have had a great email from a person who reads this blog, who said: i mentioned to you that I am concerned that the
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‘Pension’ is a nice word for re-organising property rights
A commentator on this blog has written: I am glad to see someone else has woken up to the real challenge of the next decades
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We’re not angry enough, yet
Polly Toynbee has written about banker’s pay in the Guardian this morning, saying in conclusion: Wherever you go in meetings or gatherings, people are incandescently
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Taxman defends debt retrieval priorities
Taxman defends debt retrieval priorities – Accountancy Age. The Revenue says it is not chasing debts of less than £10,000. Which is blatrantly absurd –
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And the winner of the race to the bottom is….Obwalden
As the Guardian reports: The canton of Obwalden is planning to launch "special living zones" for millionaires in an attempt to boost its tax take
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