Q : How many HMRC tax investigators does it take to change a light bulb? A : Sorry that information is subject to taxpayer confidentiality
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Radio 4 this morning, discussing information exchange on beneficial ownership
Quite a lot of people seemed to like my contribution to the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning discussing information exchange on beneficial ownership
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The UK’s position on sharing beneficial ownership data is totally hypocritical
The Treasury issued the following remarkably breathy press release last night: Chancellor George Osborne today (Thursday 14 April) unveiled a ground-breaking international deal to automatically
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Why has it taken so long for the IMF and World Bank to realise the harm that havens cause?
I offer no apology for quoting extensively today from a report in the Guardian that is headed: World Bank and IMF chiefs: tax dodging is
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The Public Accounts Committee is deeply unimpressed by HMRC’s performance on tax abuse
The following press release from the Public Accounts Committee seems to be worth sharing in full because it reflects a great deal of what I
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Luxemburg sussed me
A Universal Basic Income is possible
John Harris wrote this in the Guardian this morning: Welcome to the world of a unconditional basic income, or UBI, otherwise known as citizens’ income
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Tax competition
I spoke at a meeting of the Tax Justice Network in Luxembourg last night on the theme of tax competition. These were my speaking notes:
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The Big 4 in the firing line
The Guardian reported last night that: Labour has said that if it was in government the Department for International Development would stop using the services
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