As Bloomberg reports: Liechtenstein Prime Minister Klaus Tschuetscher said the principality will seek a withholding tax on undeclared German assets in its banks along the
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From the Treasure Islands blog: a short article as an immediate reaction to the UK-Swiss tax deal. A much longer article, complementing this, will be posted
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London features heavily in the Tax Justice Network’s new Financial Secrecy Index. Whilst the UK comes in at number 13 places for which the UK is wholly responsible
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The tax gap has been a big issue over the last few years. From being virtually unrecognised at the time I wrote The Missing Billions
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I thought it would be useful to highlight the incredibly small sample base of HMRC’s tax gap data for direct taxes, published this weak. As I have explained at length here,
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A few months ago people asked me for examples of people who might be moonlighting. One of the examples I gave was private turos – cramming children to get their GCSEs.
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HMRC have been issuing massively misleading reports that the tax gap fell by £7bn last year. It didn’t, and I have explained why here. Using
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I’m going to repeat the HMRC tax gap table just published:                            
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As the Guardian reports this morning: Britain’s most senior taxman has admitted making “governance errors” when agreeing multibillion-pound settlements with large companies. Dave Hartnett, HMRC’s
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