Listen here to the BBC’s John Humphry’s challenging David Cameron on tax avoidance. In his defence was putting money into pension funds was acceptable. But
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If the Tories find tax avoidance ‘morally repugnant’ why were they the biggest party in the EU Parliament to reject measures designed to tackle it last week?
I’ve just looked at the voting on last week’s motion in the European Parliament on the motion on measures designed to tackle tax avoidance and evasion throughout Europe. The
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The House of Cameron is built on tax haven money
As the Guardian reports this morning: David Cameron’s father ran a network of offshore investment funds to help build the family fortune that paid for
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Big companies pay a lower tax rate on their profits than people pay on their pasties
The TUC issued thsi press release this morning: “Many multi-national companies are paying a lower rate of tax on their profits than most people pay
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How can HMRC be serious about large company tax abuse when they’re cutting the staff who tackle it by 20%
Graham Black of the Association of Revenue & Customs – the union for senior staff at H M Revenue & Customs – had a first rate
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Stop rewarding tax avoidance
This is from the Greenlining Institute report called ’Tech Untaxed: Tax Avoidance in Silicon Valley, and How America’s Richest Company Pays a Lower Tax Rate than You Do’ that
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Silicon Valley Tech Untaxed – or how Apple ducks all its corporate responsibility to pay tax
I take the following edited extracts from an op ed in the San Francisco Chronicle written by Samuel S. Kang, who is general counsel and Tuan Ngo, who is a legal
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ISO 9001 and tax – a way forward for tackling tax abuse?
I received a fascinating mail from a person I’ve never met called David Lucas the other day. He said: The frustration felt because many companies
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Corporation tax at 5.5% is ‘almost government-approved avoidance’
No, I didn’t write that headline. The Tax Journal did. As they note: Heather Self, a Director at the law firm McGrigors provided an overview
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