I campaigned for automatic information exchange from tax havens for a long time. Perhaps my most important paper on the issue was published in 2009.
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As Accountancy Age has reported: A 49% uptick in the amount of extra tax collected from investigations into large corporates shifting profits overseas is an
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AccountingWEB has a chilling article out this week by tax commentator Philip Fisher. As he notes: In November 2021, the National Audit Office (NAO) issued
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I recorded this podcast with AccountingWeb yesterday. I address some big themes in current tax and accounting, including the future of KPMG:

HM Revenue & Customs is under fire from the Public Accounts Committee this morning, and rightly so. In a new report they say: HMRC ignorance
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I noticed this article in the American Economic Review yesterday: Nothing surprises me about this finding, which is completely consistent with arguments I have been
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The video in this post is the third in a series on how to tax multimillionaires. The first and second are here. In this video
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Boris Johnson claimed yesterday that the UK is not remotely corrupt. The guffaws of disbelief could be heard all around the press conference to which
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I welcome this editorial from the FT this morning: There is nothing much in the editorial that I have not said before. It is, however,
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