As the FT reports this morning: In June, Cyprus became the fifth country in the eurozone to request an international bailout after lenders got caught up in
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Unitary taxation: a response to the critics
In December the Tax Justice Network published a paper by Sol Picciotto outlining a 21st Century blueprint for taxing multinational companies. Amid rising public concern at how
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If Nick Clegg wants to talk tax fairness then he’s started in the wrong place
If Nick Clegg wants to talk tax fairness I’m delighted, and welcome it. I’m wholly non-partisan in my approach to those who want to do so, but
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HMRC shows it remains committed to helping big business do cosy international tax deals
The House of Lords has continued to hear evidence on the General Anti-Abuse Rule, the latest hearing being this week. The transcript has not yet been published, but
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The last thing the UK needs right now is a new sales tax
The FT has a comment article this morning from someone called Prof Nick Bosanquet. This retired professor of health economics who seems to have close links to
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Over here and under-taxed out Monday from Random House
My publishers have issued the following press release for my new ebook, out Monday: How and why are multinational companies in the UK able to
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New Study: Offshore Tax Dodging Blows $40 Billion Hole in U.S. State Budgets
The U.S. PIRG Education fund has published a new study that looks at losses to U.S. states from offshore tax dodging. (These losses are calculated separately from
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Royal Bank of Scotland is not a way to distribute helicopter money. Vince Cable needs to think again, and fast
The FT reports this morning: Business secretary Vince Cable will on Wednesday revive a radical plan to return Royal Bank of Scotland to the private sector by
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