I am being asked by journalists to discuss this: That, of course, is the Biden tax plan, which is radically different from anything we have
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A global minimum corporation tax rate is good news, but the detail has to be right
Janet Yellen has, according to the FT, called for a global minimum corporation tax rate. I welcome the move. I actually wrote a paper suggesting
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HMRC plans to provide a personalised service to offshore tax cheats to avoid having to name them as the criminals that they are
The FT has an article today in which they note that: Tax advisers said HM Revenue & Customs had made a “refreshing shift” away from
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Reappraising the tax gap
I learned yesterday that a book to which I contributed a chapter has been published. That book was the final output of the Combating Financial
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Can Uber afford its tax and wages bills?
As the BBC has just reported: Ride hailing taxi app firm Uber must classify its drivers as workers rather than self-employed, the UK’s Supreme Court
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Ten reasons why freeports are a bad idea
I was asked yesterday if I might be available to discuss freeports on the media and what my ‘top lines’ would be if I did.
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Why Freeports are a terrible idea
The government is proposing that there should be at least ten new freeports in the UK. These were so useless the last time that they were
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Getting tax on consulting right is about working out how to tax what actually happens – which no existing solution can deliver
It would seem that The Times is being used by HM Treasury on a quite regular basis now for kite flying tax reforms. The latest
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Companies House reform is heading in the right direction. Would you like to nudge it along?
In December the government announced a consultation on the future accounts filing arrangements with Companies House. The consultation document is here. Now I know that
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