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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Does Canada’s government want to know about tax havens?
Watch TJN’s Jim Henry on Canada’s CBC television(section starts at about 1:14). He talks about his/TJN’s report The Price of Offshore Revisited, some of the mechanisms
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Transfer pricing: the ten minute video briefing
I’ve been spending much of my day teaching journalists and others about transfer pricing. In case others are interested this is a video I made on this
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Starbucks admit they tell investors one story and tax authorities another. Please reconcile that with corporate social responsibility
Reuters has put out another Starbucks tax story. Their special report out today has the title “Starbucks’s European tax bill disappears down $100 million hole”.
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The time has come to put company tax payments on public record – as Finland has just started to do
Tax transparency is something that I have long campaigned for. As a result I was delighted to hear that the Finnish tax authorities published today,
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