I have to note this: Yuri Bender @yuribender of the FT's Professional Wealth Management just tweeted “Channel Islands currently doing their best to attract Russian
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The OECD are promising big business – nothing will change
Rumour reaches me that Pascal St Amans of the OECD when speaking at the pro-tax haven and anti-corporation tax Oxford Centre for Business Taxation yesterday
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Cyprus and the bedroom tax
That was not a title I ever expected to write. But there is a link. The world's press and financial markets have gone into spasm
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Were the Vodafone and Goldman Sachs tax settlements really value for money?
The Guardian makes new revelations this morning on the Vodafone and Goldman Sachs debacles that cam to characterise the closing years of Dave Hartnett’s time
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Is Cyprus a warning to those who use tax havens?
The reality of using tax havens is that they involve a risk. They are lightly regulated at best. Their capital is limited. Their financial services sectors are vastly over-extended.
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Is the Sark PAYE lark Guernsey’s fault?
Over the weekend the Treasury shut down an abusive tax scheme that was costing £100 million a year in lost UK national insurance. The scheme depended on employers
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The OECD and the $100 billion it helps industry hide from tax authorities
Jesse Drucker from Bloomberg is the man who turned Google’s tax affairs into a global issue, with a little help from me. Now he’s at it again,
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We won’t balance the books, even by 2018. The Treasury forecasting model is wrong and Osborne is too dumb to have noticed
As the FT notes this morning (because almost everything about this budget is being leaked in advance) George Osborne will admit in Wednesday’s Budget that
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The greatest current tax abuse of all is that companies are over here and under-taxed – and it’s deliberate
Richard Brooks of Private Eye says this morning: George Osborne has pulled off a stunning confidence trick: he has bamboozled people into thinking he is
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