A fascinating parliamentary answer by David Gauke MP, the Exchequer Secretary responsible for HMRC to Michael Meacher gives an extraordinary insight into a number of
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As the Guardian notes this morning: Until last summer the country's top tax official, Dave Hartnett is taking up a job with tax consultancy Deloitte.
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As the Mail notes this morning: The boss of Google has declared himself ‘perplexed’ by public anger at the internet giant’s meagre UK tax contribution.
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I’ve just posted David Cameron’s letter to the G8. I did so because there is a fundamental problem at the core of this letter. Much
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I have posted twice already on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing on Google today, once to anticipate it, and again to summarise some details
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I wrote this morning about the issues I expected to arise during this mornings Public Accounts Committee hearing on Google. The hearing has just finished as I
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As the Guardian note: The former head of Revenue and Customs (HMRC) took into account potential embarrassment to George Osborne when letting off Goldman Sachs from paying
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I have been told the following this morning by a music distributor: I do £millions of sales to amazon, all buying & marketing negotiated and run through
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As I described in my ebook, Over Here and Under Taxed, Amazon, like Google, has played a tax game in the UK. It claims its
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