There's some consensus around the fact that the UK is likely to be out of recession when GDP data is announced today. That's good news.
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A new demand to investigate tax avoidance is made in the House of Commons
There is a new Early Day Motion on tax avoidance in the House of Commons, tabled by Michael Meacher MP. It says: TAX AVOIDANCE Organisation:
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How to beat corporate tax avoidance and hold global capital to account – the longer version
Numerous journalists have called me asking how we should tackle the whole issue of tax avoidance by multinational corporations who right now seem to be
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The October Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network
In October's TJN Taxcast: Helsinki declares itself a tax haven-free zone, Starbucks joins the tax avoidance Roll of Dishonour and we follow the money: asset
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The avoiders
This morning’s Mail has a table of leading tax avoiders (which because of technical problems I can’t reproduce here), so please go and look. Yes,
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How to tackle corporate tax abuse
I spoke to Ruth Sunderland from the Mail yesterday about how to tackle the current problem of corporate tax abuse. I joked at the end
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Would the Murphy / Meacher Tax Avoidance Bill tackle Starbucks?
I have been asked today whether the General Anti-Tax Avoidance Principle Bill that I wrote for Michael Meacher MP and which is currently before parliament
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The Thames needs a new sewer and we ask a Swiss bank to fund it. What low have we reached?
As the FT reports this morning: Thames Water has appointed banking group UBS to lead attempts to raise £4.1bn of finance for the construction of
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Has the tipping point on public opinion on tax arrived?
As the Guardian notes this morning, anger about large corproations not paying tax is growing. Ebay and IKEA are the latest to attract attention. I
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