My friends at Global Witness has just issued the following press release, which is worthy of reproduction in full for the level of abuse it shows prevalent
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Hartnett’s worst moment?
This comes from the new HMRC business plan, published today: I’ve just posted on the battle to tax offshore accounts. This was the moment when
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The global battle to tax offshore accounts
We’ve been sent an important new paper by Itai Grinberg of Georgetown University Law Center, until recently a member of the Office of International Tax
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HMRC say their vision is to close the tax gap – by sacking 10,000 of their staff
H M Revenue & Customs published their new business plan this morning. I got sent a copy by a friendly MP. They say their number
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The treasury admit that the tax gap is vastly bigger than they’ve ever previously said
The Treasury has released some very limited data for 2010-11 based on tax returns submitted which, they say, indicates the scale of tax avoidance they
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Foreign Policy, tax evasion and tipping points
Foreign Policy magazine is pretty influential in the US and beyond. In its latest edition it reports: On April 17, U.S. taxpayers will grudgingly send
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In praise of UNCTAD
A great editorial in the Guardian today echoing sentiments expressed here and at TJN last week: What do you do with an organisation that has correctly predicted
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Now Cameron’s getting really lame – of course the name The Green Deal was not his idea
The Guardian reports this morning that: The green deal, the government’s big policy initiative for fighting climate change, is supposed to plug one of Britain’s biggest
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