The latest Luxleaks revelations on the tax arrangements of Skype show just how far make believe and tax avoidance have coincided, especially, it seems in
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Luxleaks 2: now it’s time for action against the Big 4
The next batch of leaked tax papers that reveal the extent of ax abuse engineered with the active connivance of the Luxembourg tax authorities has
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PWC’s disingenuity blights all accountants
Margaret Hodge got vey angry with PWC yesterday over its Luxembourg tax practice. She accused the firm of lying because it had previously told her
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It’s time to sack Juncker
As the Guardian reports: Jean-Claude Juncker is facing a vote in the European parliament to declare him unfit for his post as head of the
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Why corporate tax abuse has to be eradicated
I have a piece on the Guardian’s Comment is Free site this morning, discussing the motivations and impacts of the tax abuse that the Guardian
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The EU confirms that Amazon has a tax avoidance case to answer
I take some satisfaction from this headline in the FT, published overnight: As the article relates: Investigators believe Luxembourg gave Amazon favourable terms in a
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The Quick Take: the dangers of Luxembourg’s rentier capitalism
Luxembourg promotes a particularly abusive form of capitalism that is a threat to us all. This isn’t the quickest Quick Take but the issue is
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Message to Jean-Claude Junker: will you publicly back EU efforts to make business fairer?
This post was written jointly by Gavin Hayman of Global Witness and me and first appeared on the Global Witness blog today: Plenty of column
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Caffe Nero’s tax: how it pays nothing on the millions it makes selling coffee
As many will know poet Steve Pottinger has a history of taking on coffee shops who don’t pay their tax. He began with Starbucks and
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