I was pleased to note this report in the Guardian yesterday: The European parliament is pushing for UK overseas territories including the British Virgin Islands,
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Is HMRC finally cracking down on big business tax abuse?
I noted this in the FT this morning, with interest: The UK tax authority has opened multiple criminal investigations after probing whether large companies are
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The UK’s new VAT system on imports has not the slightest chance of working – and keeps honest traders out of the country
The Byline Times is amongst many media organisations reporting one of the most crass consequences of Brexit, so far. As they note (and the whole
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The tax profession is being disingenuous about the risks of tax abuse after Brexit when the UK is being set up to be a new tax haven
I noted very recently that the UK’s commitments on tax abuse in its agreement with the EU were weak, and then noted that minutes after
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The UK’s already relaxed its laws preventing tax abuse as it makes clear its intention to wage tax war on the world post-Brexit
The UK government marked Brexit and its new ability to legislate without bothering to consult Parliament, or anyone else come to that, to announce changes
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The UK does not need the abused that freeports generate – so why are they the supposed big bonus from Brexit?
I wrote this in July, but since Freeports are supposedly to be one of the big advantages of Brexit (even though they are possible within
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Tax haven UK is on its way
The Brexit deal’s arrangements with regard to tax are surprisingly limited, unless they relate to VAT and imports and exports. As far as I can
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There will be dancing in the UK’s tax havens this Christmas
This comes from the government’s analysis of its Brexit deal, leaked this morning to Guido Fawkes (quite deliberately, I am sure): There will be much
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Tax haven UK is coming
I really did not believe that the government would be daft enough to signal quite so soon that they really do intend to turn the
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