Companies House is meant to regulate companies incorporated in the UK. It doesn’t. It is instead the epitome of a UK regulatory failure. Worse than
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If there’s one man who could clean up UK tax regulation now it’s Vince Cable. Don’t hold your breath.
As the Guardian notes in an editorial this morning: The offshore industry is marked by the same combination of sleepy watchdogs who have rings run
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Who is to say what is fair rate of tax?
Fiona McTaggart MP said in a debate on Google’s tax affairs on Channel 4 on Tuesday that she expected companies to pay their fair share
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Does not paying tax represent a “lack of business integrity”? And if so, can the government not contract with those who don’t pay tax?
The US has banned BP, temporarily, from bidding for Federal contracts as a result of its “lack of business integrity” following the Gulf of Mexico
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The Laffers are back in La-La Land
Janet Daly has written this in the Telegraph today: So we were right all along. Or rather, our hero Arthur Laffer was right. Those of
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The Telegraph’s claim that all the rich have run away because of 50p tax is completely bogus
The Telegraph have run a bizarre story today that restates something so well known it has not been news for a considerable period. They say:
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The corporate tax debate is a Marmite issue: there’s no room for politicians to sit on the fence
Across Europe a realisation has dawned in almost every government that the commodity now in shortest supply in almost every economy is tax revenue. From
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John Kay supports unitary taxation in the FT: this is the solution to the current corporate tax crisis
As John Kay notes in the FT this morning: Many multinational companies that appear to be operating successfully in Britain pay little or no corporation tax in
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Calling all those interested in researching unitary taxation
The International Centre for Tax and Development at the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex has put out this call for research proposals. I would strongly recommend it
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