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Amazon’s tax – again

Posted on May 15 2013

As the Guardian and many others have noted: Amazon’s main UK subsidiary paid just £3.2m in tax last year, according to accounts filed on Wednesday,
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Where there’s muck, there’s brass plates: on the trail of UK ghost companies

Posted on May 15 2013

The UK’s investigative and satirical magazine Private Eye has produced a major new investigation into corporate crime, handled via the United Kingdom. The subtitle of
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Bill Oddie’s Bankwatch

Posted on May 15 2013

From Global Witness Read more here  

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Il gattopardo: the economics that only changes its spots

Posted on May 15 2013

Il gattopardo is (I understand) Italian for leopard. It’s important to appreciate this when reading this abstract from the Journal of the Macroeconomic Policy Institute: Thomas I. Palley Gattopardo economics: The crisis and the
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The CBI’s tax principles amount to little more than ‘let us continue avoiding as usual’

Posted on May 15 2013

The CBI issued a statement on its seven new tax principles last week. As with most things said by big business on tax these need unpacking to
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The UK’s tax gap is down to a couple of pubs and a kebab shop according to HMRC

Posted on May 15 2013

From the FT: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) stepped up its crackdown on tax evasion on Tuesday, publishing its second list of “deliberate tax defaulters”
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One of the most difficult questions in European politics that’s urgently in need of an answer

Posted on May 15 2013

This is from the FT this morning, by Steingrímur Sigfússon: Iceland’s response to the financial crisis has been taken as a model for how a country should
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For those who argue people are overtaxed in the UK and will run away if rates aren’t cut….

Posted on May 15 2013

This table has just been published by the OECD and shows the “tax wedge” taken from employment earnings for all 34 OECD countries: The OECD say of
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Luxembourg and Austria go out of their way to help tax crime

Posted on May 15 2013

As the European Voice has noted: EU Finance ministers fail to reach deal on tax avoidance That’s the depressing out come of yesterday’s ECOFIN meeting. As was also noted:
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