The innovative blog on making a one person protest against tax avoiding companies has been updated. Read it here. And for those in doubt
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Vodafone website hijacked
Full marks to Clifford Singer at the False Economy web site for reporting that earlier today campaigners noticed that tax dodgers Vodafone were running a
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Pathetic bank levy when banks have had £19bn tax loss subsidy
Draft legislation for the new bank levy has been published. £2.5 bn a year is the best estimate of what it will raise. I agree
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Tackling the tax avoiding bankers on their bonuses
The FT notes this morning: More than 50,000 high earners in the UK face a crackdown on offshore trusts used to avoid tax on bonuses,
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One woman’s Top Shop protest
I loved the initiative in this by Bryony Evens: While big businesses like Philip Green’s Arcadia Group or Vodafone are able to avoid paying their
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What a General Anti-avoidance Principle might look like
This amendment to the 2009 Finance Bill was tabled for discussion last July by the Lib Dems: ‘(1) If, when determining the liability of a
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The General Anti-avoidance Principle debate
I have had no time to comment on responses to the announcement of a review on a possible GAAR (or General Anti-avoidance Principle as I’d
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Why it’s right to protest about individual company’s tax
It’s been argued — even to their shame by Labour politicians — that it’s inappropriate to target individual companies when protesting about tax avoidance. That’s
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The ConDems massively over-selling some routine tax avoidance measures
Despite being in the US I have had several calls today from journalists on yesterday’s government announcement on tackling tax avoidance. I have already commented
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