David Cay Johnston is a US Purlitzer prize winning journalist for whom I have high regard. His latest Reuters blog begins by saying: A broad swath of official
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Interesting question. This has been a massive week for tax. And as far as I can see the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales,
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This is Newsnight last not. I was in the report 20 minutes in. Good for Giels Fraser for saying he’s proud to pay tax. As
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This is a new review of my book, The Courageous State from counterfire.org. I hope they’ll forgive me reproducing it: “The banking crisis of 2008 should have
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From the Telegraph web site yesterday: lousy quality, via Skype:

Bono and Jimmy Carr have both in their time been revealed as tax avoiders. But there’s a big difference. Jimmy Carr has said he was
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What did David Cameron do by saying Jimmy Carr’s tax arrangements were immoral? I suggest there were two things that changed, maybe for good. First,
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I’ve been asked what tax avoidance is. HM Revenue and Customs has suggested that tax avoidance is identified by “transactions or arrangements which have little
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