The Financial Mail has reported that: It is understood that the Treasury is weighing up a number of options to tap banks for cash. These
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Energy company profits are grotesque
From the UN General Secretary: The combined profits of the largest energy companies in the first quarter of this year are close to $100 billion.
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Is HM Revenue & Customs turning the payment of tax into a voluntary activity for some?
AccountingWEB has a chilling article out this week by tax commentator Philip Fisher. As he notes: In November 2021, the National Audit Office (NAO) issued
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Lord Agnew: a case where resignation was the only option left when government refuses to act
Lord Agnew quit as the government minister responsible for tackling fraud, with a brief crossing the Treasury and Cabinet Office, yesterday. He had given no
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This is not the time for stupid people to be running the government, but they are and we will pay very heavily for that
What became very clear yesterday was that our Cabinet does not understand exponential growth. As I noted on Sunday, the SAGE report that was published
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Taxing the multi-millionaires – Stopping companies being used to reduce the taxes paid by the wealthy
Inequality in the UK is increasing for many reasons. In a series of videos I am exploring one of these reasons, which is the way
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The Tax Justice Network’s State of Tax Justice report for 2021 claims that tax haven abuse by wealthy people costs $171 billion a year. The actual figure is more likely to be $4 billion a year.
The Tax Justice Network has published its 2021 State of Tax Justice Report. Regular readers of this blog will know that I was underwhelmed by
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Tax justice progress is dependent on finding effective solutions we know exist
I noted a letter I and others had sent to the OECD on taking tax justice forward yesterday. As is my usual practice I tweeted
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Congratulations to the OECD on a job well done – and can we now move on to the next goals for tax justice?
I have sent the letter that follows to Pascal St Amans, head of tax at the OECD, this morning. The signatories were all involved in
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