I heard Liz Truss say to Laura Kuenssberg that she wanted a simpler UK tax system this morning. I immediately tweeted this: Then I noticed
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Weekend reading
Tax spillovers, the REF and tax transparency
As academics know, the REF, or Research Excellence Framework, is a big deal as far as universities go. Happening once every even years it appraises
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Tory leadership hopefuls are playing a game of fantasy tax cuts and we’ll all pay a heavy price for that
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Tax cuts are in the news as Tory party leadership candidates are talking about them as if
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On the tax gap, in the Guardian
My comments on the tax gap made yesterday were picked up in the Guardian which quotes me saying: Richard Murphy, a tax expert, said the
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HMRC is marking its own homework again on the tax gap – and very oddly found it did almost exactly the same as it always does
It is HMRC tax gap day – which is the day when they admit how much tax they did not collect, in their estimation. My
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How to beat tax cheating oligarchs
I addressed a meeting of the European Parliament sub-committee on Tax Matters today, addressing the issue of how Russian oligarchs abuse tax systems to avoid
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Country-by-country reporting is beating transfer mispricing, as I always said it would
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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Sunak: they non-dom hedge fund managers friend
Rowena Mason noted in the Guardian yesterday that Sunak has not made many big statements on tax. Nor has he had a lot to say
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