HMRC have published the results of a survey that they have undertaken on people’s attitudes towards tax avoidance this morning. This is, perhaps, the most
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Fisking HMRC claims on multinational corporations
HMRC has issued a ‘fact sheet’ on why they are good at dealing with multinational corporations. There is a problem with it. Most of it is
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Tax avoidance does not work unless you’re a big business, when it’s just fine
Greg Wise’s Dispatches on Channel 4 last night showed that the tax avoidance industry is alive and well and exploiting tax loopholes. Afterwards HMRC issued
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I would really rather HMRC did not seize tax
HMRC issued the following press release in the last few minutes: The release relates to sums collected using the new Accelerated Payments procedure that requires
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Today’s Treasury Select Committee: my speaking notes
Treasury Select Committee Hearing 2 February 2016 Speaking notes prepared by Richard Murphy FCA Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University, London and
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Labour calls on National Audit Office to intervene on Google tax
I noticed this letter on my Twitter timeline last night: Writing to the National Audit Office, Seema Malhotra, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said:
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The economics of Google’s tax
The row over Google’s tax settlement of just £130 million to cover the last ten years has become political. John McDonnell raised an urgent question
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Google sets a dire precedent if HMRC follow it in the future
The Guardian published a story with this headline in the past hour or so: I think that’s the first time an interview I have done
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Google delivers a rare moment of Labour unity
Google seems to have provided Labour with a them on which it can speak with one voice. Having already noted what Margaret Hodge has to
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