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The tax profession has to do better than name call if it’s going to be anything close to credible
It’s quite hard to think of a calm and appropriate response to an editorial comment in Taxation magazine this week in which editor Mike Truman awarded Margaret Hodge MP
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Why Apple’s shareholders can’t have ‘their’ cash
The FT reports this morning: An activist hedge fund has thrown down the gauntlet to Apple, pushing it to consider new ways to return billions of dollars to
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France moves towards country-by-country reporting for its banks
From Paris, courtesy of Christian Chavagneux and Mathilde Dupré: “Last night the Finance Commission of the French Assembly voted to force French banks to publish
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The government will wait until the end of 2014 to stop tax avoidance in the gambling industry – nearly three years after spotting the problem
I noticed another exchange on tax avoidance in parliament yesterday, this one on gambling taxation, no doubt motivated by last week’s report in The Independent in which I commented.
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HMRC are going to lose more than 6% of staff tackling tax avoidance and evasion in the next year
I noticed an exchange in Parliament yesterday, albeit in written answers, in which Catherine McKinnell MP asked David Gauke MP, the minister she shadows: How many staff he expects to
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Nick Clegg really does not understand his government’s General Anti-Abuse Rule or what it does – and that’s going to come back and bite him hard
Nick Clegg delivered his speech on tax fairness this morning, and I was duly sent a copy by his office. It was a disappointing affair,
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It’s time for the Netherlands to stop acting like a tax haven – including on hiding corruption
My friends at Global Witness have issued an important press release this morning, saying: As the scandal grows around a Nigerian oil deal involving Shell
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It’s time to print money to fill the hole in the economy
The FT reported yesterday (and I missed it then) that: Lord Turner, the departing chairman of the Financial Services Authority has defended financing government spending by printing
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