I spent some time yesterday assisting the FT with a story on Starbucks, its accounts and tax. The FT reports my comment this morning: Richard
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Expect the Big 4 accountants to oppose the G7 tax agreement – because collectively they are the backbone of the offshore world
I made this comment yesterday after the G7 tax deal was announced: I have been asked what the biggest impediments to delivery of the new
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The G7 tax deal: a first reaction says there is a long way to go to get this right as yet
Rishi Sunak issued this Tweet not long ago: the video in it can be played: https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1401133898847948803?s=20 He followed up with these tweets: What does this
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The EU did not rise to the challenge of country-by-country reporting
I wrote yesterday about the negotiation that was scheduled on country-by-country reporting in the EU which, it was hoped would bring a favourable outcome by
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Today’s a big day for country-by-country reporting
Today is a big day for country-by-country reporting, the accounting system for multinational corporations that holds them to account for the tax that they pay
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EU civil society organisations and trade unions call for urgent corporate tax transparency plan rethink
Transparency International published this post today, and I cross-post from there as a signatory referred to in it: Sixty-two civil society organisations and trade unions
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Taxing multinational companies – the right way
A regular commentator on this blog asked yesterday: Given the blatant abuse by some multinational companies of their capacity to move their taxable gains for
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Why isn’t the government supporting a global minimum corporation tax rate?
The Daily Record has noted, along with a number of other papers, that: Labour is to stage a Commons vote to try and force the
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If we’re to beat Covid 19 we might need hypothecated taxes- which is something I never expected to say
I have always resisted the idea of hypothecated taxation. There are very good reasons for doing so. First, claims of hypothecation are usually a sham
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