I liked Simon Hoggart’s commentary on yesterday’s hearing of Starbucks, Google and Amazon before the Parliamentary Accounts Committee. He said: It was one of the great committee disasters, like
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It is rare that US companies are ever held to account by their shareholders: US law does not encourage it. It is rarer still that
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HMRC’s beginning an ad campaign to close the tax gap. I gather it will look like this: Is that really the best they can do.
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So, what do we want to know this afternoon in the Parlimanetary Accounts Committee hearing fro Google, Starbucks and Amazon. There are slight variations for
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As the Guardian reports this morning, UK Uncut is planning to target Starbucks on 8 December. I think Starbucks the ideal target for protest: no
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The Parliamentary Accounts Committee is meeting today to discuss the problems multinational companies are creating by shifting their profits out of the UK. The mood for change
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Day by day we are now hearing of corporations trying to hide their profits in tax havens. Day after day we learn of the structuring
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Discussion about corporation tax continues unabated, and I am  looking forward to tomorrow and the Parliamentary Accounts Committee hearing. With a little luck I will be there. What interests
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I tweeted this last night: Where did this absurd myth that the government’s money is ‘ours’ come from? Taxes belong to the government and no
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