Fascinating comment in the Guardian this morning: Willie Walsh, the British Airways chief executive, will launch an excoriating attack on the government on Thursday for the absence
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The OECD’s Insight Blog has published a discussion between Christian Chavagneux (co-author of Tax Havens: How Globalisation Really Works) and the OECD’s Pascal Saint-Amans. The latter claims success
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A decade ago it would have been hard to imagine a dispute between the OECD and Tax Justice Network getting headlines in the tax world. For
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As the FT notes: The UK chancellor aims to launch an “Osborne bond” — a 100-year debt issue or even a perpetual gilt that never
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From Martin Wolf in the FT this morning, and important pre-the budget: One cannot get out of debt by taking on more debt. How often have you
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The Tax Justice Network has today published a report on the OECD’s Global Forum peer review process, the main mechanism for assessing the effectiveness of Tax Information
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H M Revenue & Customs will issue 850,000 penalty notices for late income tax returns this year. It sounds an astonishing number but actually about
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As Philip Stephens says in the FT this morning: Those demanding the chancellor should “cut and be damned” present a confused case. On the one hand
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Talking of the International Tax Review, as I did in the previous blog, it’s worth mentioning that they’ve launched the programme for what will undoubtedly be one of the major
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