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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The fight against tax havens was worth it
Back in 2o12 I leaked to the International Tax Review that the UK was finally going to crack down on the absence of tax transparency
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The very wealthy in the UK really do pay much less tax than they should
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has issued a new report this morning which is firmly in their own tax territory and appears to make recommendations
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Is the Chancellor’s wife really a non-dom? It’s a question needing an answer
I have campaigned on domicile related issues ever since I began working on tax justice and have written newspaper articles and broadcast on the issue.
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Why is it that those who live off financial speculation are taxed so much less in the UK than those who work for a living?
My old friend and long term colleague in tax justice and accounting reform campaigning, Prem Sikka, who now sits in the House of Lords, said
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Trust registration starts from 1 September: another barrier to tax transparency is falling
In 2005 John Christensen and I wrote this in Tax Us If You Can – the manifesto of the fledgling Tax Justice Network that went
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The UK has been corrupted and accountants, lawyers and bankers are to blame
Andrew Rawnsley wrote this in The Observer yesterday: Once upon a time, Britons would have been astonished and appalled to find scandal simultaneously bespoiling their
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