Some MPs get precisely what is required to beat tax cheats. This letter was in the Guardian this morning: Tax cheating by Jimmy Carr, Gary Barlow and Chris Hoy must
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HMRC have only got 4,000 companies under investigation? That’s one in 700
The FT’s reported on yesterday’s Parliamentary Accounts Committee hearing on HMRC’s handling of tax cases, noting: More than 4,000 companies are currently under investigation by
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The EU’s €1 trillion lost to tax evasion
It’s only a month ago that the UK government sent a report to parliament saying very specifically that my work on the tax gap was
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A manifesto for economic sense
Not by me this time, but by Paul Krugman and Richard Layard in the FT. Get behind the firewall (it’s possible – there is a
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Is Barclays guilty of a criminal offence?
Full marks to Andy Wightman who has posted this on his blog: This evening I submitted the following report to the Tower Hamlets Division of
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The Sark Lark continues
Sark has a special case in the history of tax haven abuse – once being well known for what was called ‘the Sark lark”. It was rumoured
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All aboard for Tax Justice
I love this: You can get your own Tax Justice bus here. And as Christian Aid says of its campaign: Our tax justice campaign has
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Barclays: if market rigging doesn’t shatter the illusions about banking, what will?
Barclays stood accused of market rigging on LIBOR, and pleaded guilty. There will be a lot of appropriate anger as a consequence. But let’s look at the deeper
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The EU recognises tackling the tax gap is key to Europe’s recovery
It’s rare for Tax Research UK to host guest posts, but Naomi Fowler, producer of the Tax Justice Network Taxcast just produced the following blog for me and I’m delighted
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