Cameron is keeping up the rhetoric on tax avoidance, as reported in the Giardian this morning: On tax the prime minister said the time had
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Over here and under-taxed, published this morning
My new ebook ‘Over here and under-taxed’ is published this morning. Links you can get it from are here. It won’t cost you much. The
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A suggestion for Bill Dodwell’s code of conduct for NGO tax campaigners
Bill Dodwell has said NGOs working on tax campaigning should be regulated. He had included me in his targets. TJN has challenged Dodwell to propose
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Osborne commits to ending tax avoidance but I need convincing that he means it
George Osborne has written in the Guardian saying he is committed to ending tax abuse by multinational companies. I welcome that; I just wish I
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George Osborne needs to read ‘Over here and under-taxed’
George Osborne has said he wants to end multinational company tax avoidance. He was explicit: he's tackling the likes of Google, Amazon and Starbucks. He
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Bill Dodwell is the face of a frightened tax profession
The Tax Journal published an article yesterday entitled ‘Urban myths and the recent tax debate’. I think I should put The Tax Journal in context: it is a sister publication to Taxation, whose
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This morning’s Today programme
I was on the Today programme this morning. You can listen again here at 2.38:30. I made several arguments. The first is that the politics
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Progress towards automatic information exchange with tax havens is inevitable: it’s when, not if
The Economist series on offshore, published as a special report this week, has some powerful nuggets within it. I was talking about automatic information exchange in the Canadian
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Labour’s moving back to redistribution, and that’s very welcome indeed
I was asked if I would go on the BBC News Channel to discuss Ed Miliband’s tax announcements today, but childcare commitments just did not
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