I liked this exchange on the blog, and thought I’d share it. Someone called Frank said, when commenting on my blog on the tax avoidance
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If Google has a £1bn UK HQ will it pay any more tax here?
The FT reports this morning: Google has completed a £1bn deal to build a new UK headquarters on 2.4 acres of disused land behind King’s Cross
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There is one tax inspector for every £198 million of income amongst the UK’s top earners. No wonder tax avoiders are winning
The FT has reported: Hundreds of thousands more wealthy individuals will appear on HM Revenue & Customs’ radar after it doubled its team for tackling
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The time to end tax haven secrecy is now
The Guardian has reported this morning that: Britain’s most successful serial confidence trickster, Achilleas Kallakis, faces up to 10 years in jail after being found
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The Accountancy Age tax avoidance debate: whether you favour tax avoidance is down to your view of the world
My closing comments in the Accountancy Age tax avoidance debate, which has been taking place this week, have just been posted. I said: Where did
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The EU – far from perfect – but right now better than the alternatives
The EU is far from perfect. It was built on a false premise, which was that freedom of movement for capital would deliver growth. As is very clear that’s
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Why we’re still in recession
The Guardian has reported that Eurozone car sales were down 16% in December. Now that is possibly because there were two fewer trading days, but
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Goldman Sachs backs down on bonus tax avoidance plan
This is no normal tax year
I liked this comment in the FT this morning on delaying bankers’ bonuses to avoid tax: In a normal tax year, if an income tax rate was about to change
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