This afternoon the FT blogged: Fifteen banks are signatories to the UK’s Code of Practice on Taxation. BANK OF AMERICA/MERRILL BARCLAYS CITIGROUP (CITIBANK) CREDIT SUISSE DEUTSCHE BANK
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The tax gap is not compliance: it’s tax avoidance
I’ve noted the usual nonsense from the right wing – let alone the CBI – has been trotted out today that the only reason large
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You don’t believe the tax gap is caused by tax avoidance? Then look at this
The government has issued this press release this afternoon: The Government has today taken steps to close two aggressive tax avoidance schemes recently disclosed to HM Revenue &
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Now the CBI admits tax avoidance can be abusive even though it’s legal
As the Guardian and other papers have reported, the CBI has: for the first time admitted that “black box” tax schemes devised with the sole
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The Financial Times back country-by-country reporting – and says oil companies should do so too
I’ll never be objective about country-by-country reporting, and I admit it. But none the less I was very pleased to see the FT saying in an editorial this morning
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