The Tax Justice Network has published new research into banks’ and Big 4 accounting firms’ global geographical reach and presence. Using data from our Financial Secrecy Index (FSI) project, the
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HMRC, by some strange coincidence, published a briefing last week called ‘Taxing the profits of multinational businesses’. There’s a copy here. It’s truly appalling. This is the best they
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Aditya Chakrabortty wrote an article for the Guardian yesterday in which he included this chart: The data comes from the IMF. It shows the planned
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After four blogs, three television appearances, two radio interviews, a Guardian article and nine press interviews yesterday I would like to slow down today. But I’ll still be with
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My friends at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions have just issued this press release, which I welcome and support: The revelation that the Starbucks coffee chain
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I’m told that someone from the Chartered Institute of Tax has been claiming today on BBC News 24 that companies have a duty to their
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A free download e-book based on the best selling Sprit Level is now available on the My Fair London web site. It’s been produced in association with CLASS – the Centre
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When tax avoidance debate is about Google, Facebook and Apple it can be argued that the UK has no equivalent companies so that there is
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Last week’s big tax story was Facebook. It’s a new week, it’s time for a new story, and a new US company that’s willing to play the
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