Here’s another classic from the Institute for Fiscal Studies: To discourage investors from hiding their wealth in foreign tax havens, the authors recommend exempting interest
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IFS want to replace corporation tax with VAT
In really haven’t given the IFS enough attention of late. In June they issued a press release saying this: Corporation tax should be reformed or
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28% of US corporations aren’t paying tax
The Washington Post has reported that: About two-thirds of corporations operating in the United States did not pay taxes annually from 1998 to 2005, according
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Conning the Congo
The follwoing comes from the Greenpeace International website. As I contributed to the report “Conning the Congo” to which it refers, I’m happy to reproduce
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Consistency is the issue, but not the one corporates raise
I missed a letter in the FT last week from Lord Wallace of Saltaire, the Lib Dem peer and former LSE academic. He said (and
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Foreign profits: time for a rethink
The Treasury has indicated that the current round of consultation on the taxation treatment of foreign profits has come to an end. The reasons have
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Are the CIOT / ICAEW really asking for the UK to copy Ireland?
The ICAEW and CIOT have jointly written to the Treasury asking that the current review on the future of UK corporation tax be expanded. I
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File on Four: Profits before poverty
I expect to find File of 4 on Tuesday 15 July very interesting. The trailer says: Profits before poverty? In 1948, the post-war Labour Government
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The CCCTB makes progress
Interesting that the day following the first meeting of the committee considering the future of corporation tax in the UK the FT publishes and article
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