The advertising is tacky The subject even more so
A general anti-avoidance principle is in sight
The General Anti-Avoidance Principle I drafted was not officially on the agenda during the Finance Bill debate yesterday — but Michael Meacher and John Pugh
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12 is not enough!
I blogged the UK / French Summit comments on tax havens earlier today and mentioned the problems of the ‘international standard’ for tax havens /
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Accountants deny new tax dodge
BBC NEWS | Business | Accountants deny new tax dodge. Grant Thornton deny they are flogging tax avoidance and in the process seek to avoid
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Destroying the case that information exchange causes harmtion exchange
Tax Justice Network: The non-perils of information exchange. Nick Shaxson at TJN has written a rigorous rebuttal of the claim that Automatic Information Exchange (AIE)
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Another go at a General Anti-Avoidance Principle
This amendment to the Finance Bill has been tabled for discussion this week by the Lib Dems: ‘(1) If, when determining the liability of a
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The Tax Code of Conduct for Banks: 1 failure, 1 omission and 3 oversights
The good news about the government’s new Tax Code of Conduct is that it exists. It would be churlish not to recognise that. But, that
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The bank code of conduct: another win
I drafted the Tax Justice Network / Association for Accountancy and Business Affairs code of conduct for tax in 2007 ( summary here). It attracted
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All transfer mispricing causes tax losses in developing countries
Earlier this week a team from Oxford University challenged the work I and others have done in seeking to estimate the tax loss to developing
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