The FT reports this morning that it has seen draft measures being considered by the EU designed to tackle tax avoidance. So have I. And amongst them
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The Guardian reports Vince Cable on the Andrew Marr show, yesterday: Vince Cable, the business secretary, has said the government needs to “beef up” its
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Jersey is beginning to show signs of paranoia when it comes to its tax haven status. On and off record its tetchiness is becming increasingly
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Sometimes I make a quote to the press I just know they’ll use. Not always, of course. Not even often, maybe. But some work. I
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As an accounting practitioner I’ve seen a few divorces in my time, and how people prepare for them, consciously or not. They began to steel themselves for
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The defenders of Google, Amazon and most especially Starbucks have been queuing up to defend the companies on various articles on this blog. The argument, at least
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As Will Hutton says in the Observer today: Our fifth-columnist Eurosceptics are happier that the UK corporate tax base is destroyed and the British economy
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It was always pretty absurd that goods were chipped from the UK to the Channel Islands just to be shipped back again, all to avoid
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I gather the question of Starbucks’ franchises was raised on Question Time last night – with the implication that targeting them was to target a tax paying company in
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