The Guardian has reported that: Child poverty in Britain has increased for the second year in a row, government figures revealed yesterday, putting Labour’s target
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Taxing profit where it is made
The FT has said in an editorial comment: The goal for European fiscal policymakers should be a regime that enhances genuine competition among economies. It
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The Tax Gap methodology is valid
There’s a chap called Tim Worstall who writes a blog and who seems pretty fixated on what I write. The difficulty for Tim Worstall (who,
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Taxing UK profits
The committee set up by Alastair Darling to consider the future of corporation tax, and in particular the taxation of foreign profits, meets for the
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Raising VAT is not the answer to the corporation tax problem
I admit that there are moments when I quietly despair of the harm that is likely to result from so called tax reforms. This morning
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Time to debate the issues
Accountancy Age has a good article called ‘Guarding reputations: tax profession needs to clean up its act’. By seasoned journalist Sarah Perrin, it seeks to
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The US gets tough on tax exiles
The US is getting tougher on tax exiles. As the Wall Street Journal reports: Hundreds of Americans formally renounce their U. S. citizenship every year,
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Tescos: the Zug deal is tax avoidance
I am almost amused by a comment made this morning concerning my analysis of Tesco’s financing operation in Zug in Switzerland by Tim Worstall who
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Tescos, supplliers of bunkum
Tesco’s claim that it doesn’t avoid tax has been blown clean out of the water by Private Eye. In this week’s edition the Eye notes
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