The EU has today issued a new policy statement on tackling tax evasion and avoidance. I warmly welcome it. The press release says: “Around one
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Starbucks has announced (according to Sky): Starbucks has confirmed it is now planning to pay more corporation tax than it is obliged to amid the
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This paragraph is in the Autumn Statement: Now this does not say why they’re doing this. But it’s my bet that eBay and PayPal are
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There’s good news for all who have been campaigning for the government to make tax compliance an issue in the award of government contracts in the Autumn Statement, which includes the following paragraph:
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Too good not to share, even if I don’t quite agree with all the sentiments. What I do agree with is the message that this
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As my TUC colleague Nicola Smith pointed out on the Touchstone blog yesterday: [The AutumnStatement] provides costings for the new employment rights for shares scheme— the costs of which are estimated by the
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There are occassions when the press baffle me. Take this, from the London Evening Standard, yesterday; George Osborne’s clampdown on wealthy foreigners using offshore companies
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Let me suggest something. It’s just an idea. I can’t prove it right or wrong. Nor can it, for that matter be disproved. But the
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The debate on tax avoidance is now inextricably and correctly linked to a debate on tax and morality. To explain this let me reiterate what tax
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