As the Guardian notes this morning: Until last summer the country's top tax official, Dave Hartnett is taking up a job with tax consultancy Deloitte.
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It’s time for parliament to get serious about defending democracy from big business
As the Mail notes this morning: The boss of Google has declared himself ‘perplexed’ by public anger at the internet giant’s meagre UK tax contribution.
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Hartnett and Deloitte: the corporate capture of HMRC continues
As the Guardian has noted: The row over tax avoidance by multinational companies escalated on Monday night as it emerged that Dave Hartnett, until 10 months ago
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The time for unitary taxation is coming
Prem Sikka has been arguing in favour of unitary taxation in the Guardian. He's right to do so, but it is only fair to say
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Swiss bankers suddenly favour automatic information exchange
Tax-news.com reported this morning that: President of the Swiss Private Bankers Association (SPBA) Nicolas Pictet has urged the Federal Council to abandon its “white money”
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Keynes was right. The Treasury was, and is, wrong. Everything else is a footnote to that
From Martin Wolf this morning: The UK Treasury considers John Maynard Keynes to be an idiot. He famously said that “the boom, not the slump, is the
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Mythbusters: “There’s nothing we can do about tax havensâ€
The full version of this mythbuster, which I have co-written with Dan Hind on tax havens and what we can do about them is now
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From January 2003 to May 2013 – progress with country-by-country reporting
In January 2003 I published a report with this cover, which was made available here: I thought that this proposal would be read by Prof Prem
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The rush to country-by-country reporting is on
Bloomberg reported yesterday that: The European Union will seek to make large companies disclose the taxes they pay and profits they make on a country-by-country basis as
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