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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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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From Global Witness Read more here  

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 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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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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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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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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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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