MPs’ tax probe on profit from their string of house ‘swaps’ | The Sun |News. I spent a lot of time this weekend talking to
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General Anti-Avoidance Principle to be proposed in the Commons
This from the blog of Michael Meacher MP: Next Tuesday and Wednesday the Commons will be debating the Committee stage of the Finance Bill on
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More comment on yesterday’s debate in parliament
More comment here — by Paul Sagar and well worth reading, covering dimensions I have not touched. As does TJN — who pick up on
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The tax gap debate in Parliament yesterday
There was another dimension to yesterday’s debate in parliament on tax avoidance and tax evasion. This referred to the Tax Gap. As Vince Cable noted,
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Conservatives in denial?
More from Hansard and the debate on tax avoidance yesterday, from Tony Baldry MP: [I]n none of the briefings that I have been sent have
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What would a general anti-avoidance provision look like?
I was discussing this question with a friend today. He wanted to know what such a provision would look like. I said I’d been told
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Obama goes for offshore
These are today’s press releases from the White House: Leveling the Playing Field: Curbing Tax Havens and Removing Tax Incentives For Shifting Jobs Overseas There
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Informa?
Somehow you’d think a company with such a name would be well advised. I’m not sure why — it just has that sort of claim
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Caine joins the Vain Drain
I noted from the Daily Telegraph this morning that Michael Caine will be leaving the UK as a result of the 50% tax rate. The
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