The National Audit Office report on HMRC’s performance on tax avoidance, issued today, is an important document, not least because it makes it very clear that HMRC
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David Cameron, yesterday: But it’s not right if you have businesses instead of paying some taxes somewhere are paying no taxes anywhere. And the G8
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This is from this morning’s FT headlines email: Alleged fraud, convicted fraud and  suspected fraud. Business as normal in the world of finance then.

I was delighted to see this report in the International Tax Review: Stephen McPartland, a Conservative member of the UK parliament, told International Tax Review
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It looks like the UK is not the only place that takes a soft touch approach to tax crime and a hard line approach to benefits crime.
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My Tax Justice Network colleagues Nick Shaxson and Sol Picciotto are in the FT this morning. Their argument is a simple one. They say: It is time for
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I wrote yesterday about the farce of the tax information exchange agreements that have been signed by many tax havens / secrecy jurisdictions in response to OECD demands in
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Have you heard about the miners in Zambia who pay more tax than the multi-national mining company they work for? How do these corporations get
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In 2009 the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said it was going to crack down on tax havens by demanding that they open themselves to
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