Google are back before the Public Accounts Committee. It’s all the fault of Reuters journalist Tom Bergin who didn’t believe Google’s evidence to the PAC that they
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Amazon’s tax – again
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
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
Il gattopardo: the economics that only changes its spots
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’
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
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
This is from the FT this morning, by SteingrÃmur 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….
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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