I expect to be on Newsnight tonight to discuss the British Virgin Islands and why it appears to be used by so many Chinese people
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Avoiding Davos
A year ago David Cameron did something that, to be candid, few of us involved with tax justice expected. When addressing the World Economic Forum
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Is the OECD about to cave in to Google and Amazon?
According to the FT the OED has concluded that there is no tax solution that is specifically applicable to the digital economy. Happy days for
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HMRC should review the tax status of the Bitcoin – to see what can be done to eliminate its use
HMRC is reported to be reviewing the tax status of the Bitcoin. So it should. But not, I suggest, to make it a legal tender,
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Tax evasion in the Cayman Islands? Surely not…
This headline in Accountancy Age made me smile for a number of reasons: Why? First of all because HMRC are doing something about tax evasion.
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At Economia I’m asking ‘why do we think accounts should be books?’
I’ve begun a new column for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales’s Economia magazine. The first is entitled ‘Why do we think
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The finance curse is creating inequality in the UK
As I have already noted today, Oxfam are arguing in a report that they have issued that in the US, the wealthiest one percent captured
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The inevitable backlash against tax reform has begun. It’s civil society’s job to fight back
It was almost inevitable that at some time big business, with its ability to command almost untold sums in lobbying budgets, would fight back against
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It’s time to address the finance curse
Dr Atul Shah is a senior lecturer in accounting & finance at the University Campus Suffolk. A long time supporter of tax justice, he has
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