This morning’s Mail has a table of leading tax avoiders (which because of technical problems I can’t reproduce here), so please go and look. Yes,
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How to tackle corporate tax abuse
I spoke to Ruth Sunderland from the Mail yesterday about how to tackle the current problem of corporate tax abuse. I joked at the end
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Would the Murphy / Meacher Tax Avoidance Bill tackle Starbucks?
I have been asked today whether the General Anti-Tax Avoidance Principle Bill that I wrote for Michael Meacher MP and which is currently before parliament
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The Thames needs a new sewer and we ask a Swiss bank to fund it. What low have we reached?
As the FT reports this morning: Thames Water has appointed banking group UBS to lead attempts to raise £4.1bn of finance for the construction of
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Has the tipping point on public opinion on tax arrived?
As the Guardian notes this morning, anger about large corproations not paying tax is growing. Ebay and IKEA are the latest to attract attention. I
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The Tories just don’t get equality
As the Guardian puts it: George Osborne is accused of ‘great train snobbery’ after journalist says aide told ticket inspector the chancellor ‘could not possibly’ sit in
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What will happen when sometime soon when a large number of our most able tax inspectors will have retired?
As the Telegraph reports: Around one third of staff at HMRC’s enforcement and compliance division will be eligible for retirement in the next five years, figures in
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The Tax Justice Network on Radio 4’s Thought for the Day
TJN was mentioned – and its philosophy endorsed – on BBC Rafio 4’s Thought for the Day this morning, given by Richard Harries, Baron Harries of
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Starbucks is the evidence: tax campaigning can hit brands
The Guardian reports this morning: On Thursday, YouGov’s BrandIndex, which records the strength of companies’ brand identity, revealed Starbucks has plummeted in the past few
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