I am a member of the NGO based BEPS Monitoring Group (BMG). BEPS is the OECD initiative that is meant to tackle Base Erosion and Profits
Read the full article…
What’s fair when it comes to tax?
A lot of people have been asking the question ‘what’s fair’ when it comes to tax over the last few days. The Fair Mark has,
Read the full article…
HSBC: institutionally corrupt
The Guardian has reported that: Britain’s biggest bank, HSBC, has inflamed the row over City pay by awarding allowances to hundreds of its top staff, enabling
Read the full article…
Africa is failing to curb soaring inequality
Unprecedented economic growth in a number of African countries is going hand in hand with soaring inequality, which national tax systems are failing to address,
Read the full article…
Tax 700,000 empty homes in the UK back into use
The Guardian rightly points out the scandal of there being at least 700,000 empty properties in the UK this morning. I first addressed this issue
Read the full article…
If you want to rename national insurance and make it an ‘earnings tax’ it must be applied to all earnings
According to The Telegraph, a Taxpayers' Alliance campaign to have national insurance renamed Eranings Tax is likely to be successful. A number if, inevitable thoughts
Read the full article…
Why has it taken more than 5 years for RBS to realise it has to get its core business right?
I am amused to note that RBS has finally decided the time has come for it to get its core business right. I am also
Read the full article…
Chris Moyles must have known exactly what he was doing
I think the time has come to end any debate on whether or not Chris Moyles knew what his tax avoidance scheme involved. He unambiguously
Read the full article…
What Chris Moyles supposedly did – the diagram that seeks to say it all
Attached to some version so the tax tribunal hearing decision that ruled that Chris Moyles had unsuccessfully sought to avoid paying tax was this diagram
Read the full article…

Buy me a coffee!
