I was pleased to get this press release this afternoon: UNISON Scotland today urged the Scottish Government to ban companies involved in tax dodging from
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Would the minister like to answer a straight question on country-by-country reporting? Apparently not
Catherine McKinnell MP, Labour Shadow Minister responsible for HMRC, was on form questioning David Gauke yesterday. Here’s another exchange: Gauke knows full well that McKinnell was not
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Would the minister like to say what he’s doing about tax avoidance? Apparently not
From Hansard, yesterday: One of these two seems interested in tackling this issue. The other in stalling on it. I think it obvious to whom
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Want to hide your money? It’s all too easy
Find out how easy it is for criminals, dictators and ordinary people to set up anonymous companies to hide their cash and avoid paying any
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The time for pension funds to invest directly in regeneration and housing has arrived
A magazine called New Start has featured the following statement this week: A housing scheme in Manchester is the latest development to fuel debate over the use of council
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When James Murdoch can get a 95% vote of support we know institutional shareholders are failing us, badly
As the FT’s reported this morning: A total of 95 per cent of shareholders voted to reappoint Mr Murdoch as a non-executive director of the
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HMRC want plaudits for collecting a tiny amount of the tax due by multinationals? I don’t think so
I can only presume that Lin Homer, new boss of HMRC, thinks we all have remarkably short memories. She told the Treasury Select Committee this
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In Greece just a little tax justice has been done
I am delighted that Kostas Vaxevanis has been found not guilty in his trial in Greece where he was accused of breaking data privacy laws by publishing the names in
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