The Guardian has reported that: The battle over the Scottish government’s plans for Scotland to share the pound after independence intensified sharply on Wednesday after the governor
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International tax abuse, Facebook style
This is from the FT this morning. Tax abuse is alive and well and continuing from Ireland: A Dublin-based company at the heart of Facebook’s international
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Tax abuse is not faceless: there’s always an accountant behind it
Jesse Drucker has become one of the leading journalists exposing tax abuse over the last few years. Now with Bloomberg he has a fascinating story
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Ireland supports country-by-country reporting in amongst its unsustainable international tax strategy
Ireland has issued a statement on its international tax strategy. It has to be said much of this is PR and an implausible defence of
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Northern Ireland get’s record investment – without a cut in the tax rate
As the Belfast Telegraph has reported: The number of foreign inward investment projects into Northern Ireland has leapt by 41% in the last year. UK Trade and
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Ireland isn’t a tax haven according to the OECD – who get described as a damp squib in return
According to the Irish Times: Ireland is emphatically not a tax haven, according to the head of the tax division of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation
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Vince Cable stokes the debate on a separate tax rate for Northern Ireland
Vince Cable discussed a 12.5% corporation tax rate for Northern ireland on the Stephen Nolan show this morning. Listen here. He made two claims. The first was that the
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Catholic bishops to G8: paying tax is a ‘moral obligation’
As the Guardian has noted this morning: Cardinal Brady, the head of Ireland’s Catholic church, has urged G8leaders to make good on their pledge to tackle
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Ireland is a tax haven. Why do they bother to deny it?
I was amused by this in the Belfast Telegraph this morning: The Irish government is “sleepwalking” through destructive claims that the state is a tax haven for
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