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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Oxford’s “overestimated dramatically” is actually “wildly exaggerated” or just “plain wrong”.
As I note yesterday, the FT has noted that: A … study, by the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, says tax losses from multinationals
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Why didn’t you ask Oxford?
I have been blogging rather a lot about the new Oxford paper on tax avoidance and tax evasion in developing countries today, but issues keep
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The tax gap cannot be calculated from micro-based data
The Oxford University report on tax evasion and tax avoidance, to which I have already referred, makes a number of quite extraordinary claims. One is
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The Oxford study on tax abuse in developing countries
The FT noted yesterday that: A … study, by the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, says tax losses frommultinationals shifting profits that are down
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Private equity – dedicated to offshore
The FT notes: At a time when governments are launching a fierce assault on tax havens, the [part of] Fortis now owned by the Dutch
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Tax avoidance is wrong – and now we know it
The Telegraph has reported that Treasury Minister Kitty Ussher MP: told the tax authorities that her Burnley home was her “principal residence” for a single
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