As I mentioned yesterday, I have been invited to Bratislava by the Slovak government as part of their programme of work linked to their EU Presidency. I am speaking on tackling tax evasion in the EU. These are my speaking notes:
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Hope they are listening to you Richard!
Who knows?
These things are always throwing ideas out and hoping something sticks
Tax codes evolve to be increasingly complex. A rather different approach is to tear parts of them up and introduce something which is very simple and has few potential loopholes. One attempt at this specifically for corporation tax avoidance is at: http://outsidethebubble.net/2016/09/27/fair-taxation-on-corporate-profits/ . No doubt rather simplistic but perhaps that’s what we need?
This seems like a variation on my Alternative Minimum Corporation Tax