2013 October 29

Tax haven UK runs a voluntary box corporation tax system for those who’d like to pay

Posted on October 29 2013

The extent to which the UK has become a tax haven became apparent yesterday at the Public Accounts Committee Hearing when Margaret Hodge asked why
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Elites remain in charge by clearing out the opposition and then blocking their ears to reality.

Posted on October 29 2013

Aditya Chakrabortty has written a powerful article for the Guardian this morning under the title ‘Mainstream economics is in denial: the world has changed’. He
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The argument is over: HMRC understate the tax gap

Posted on October 29 2013

The tax gap debate in the UK was pretty much first sparked by my February 2008 paper for the TUC entitled The Missing Billions. Old
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Edward Troup’s defence should have been “I’ve changed my mind” but we never heard it

Posted on October 29 2013

I wrote yesterday referring to a 1999 Financial Times article by Ed Troup who is now the permanent secretary for HM Revenue & Customs in which
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Some of us said the UK – Swiss tax deal was full of holes from the start and now we know that’s true

Posted on October 29 2013

Amongst the outcomes of yesterday’s Public Accounts Committee hearing in which HMRC were interviewed about their performance was the revalation that the UK – Swiss
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