There are a lot of accountants and lawyers who are saying that there are people queuing up to leave the UK. I’m not so sure.
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Corporate abuse through beggar they neighbour
The Observer noted yesterday: Tax investigators are set to issue a series of challenges to global companies who claimed to have relocated headquarters out of
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Stemming the Flood?: new TUC report on tax avoidance
Tax avoidance measures announced by the Government since April 2008 have raised nearly £1 billion, but far more could be done with tougher measures and
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The Pre Budget Report: a time to tackle tax avoidance
The Guardian reports: The government’s crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion has raised over £1bn in just 18 months, and speculation is growing that Alistair
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Will the best off cut their income if tax rates rise?
There has been an interesting response to the Compass tax report. One has been to challenge why my co-authors and I did say that: Of
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Is that really the best the Tories can do?
I was on the Today programme this morning discussing the new Compass report on the need for a fairer tax system for the UK. You
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In Place of Cuts:Tax reform to build a fairer society
Compass have published a new report this morning. Entitled ‘In Place of Cuts:Tax reform to build a fairer society ’, it puts forward a comprehensive
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What happens in a Jersey fund? Not a lot, since you ask
A commentator on this blog has said, initially quoting me, and overall in response to comment by Dave Hartnett: “Tax compliance is seeking to pay
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Tax avoidance – a game now played by losers?
That was the mildly provocative title of the talk I gave last night to the annual joint meeting of the London branch of the Chartered
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