I know it’s the start of Christian Aid week, and I know they’re talking about tax, but it also seems to be tax avoidance day
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This is Christian Aid week in the UK. Christian Aid launches its annual report linked to that week today. It is called Death and Taxes.
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The Tax Justice Network for Africa issued this press release today: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 10, 2008 Lusaka, Zambia Africa has lost $607 billion (US).
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Switzerland has announced that: there has been a substantial increase in the amount of tax retained on behalf of the European Union for 2007. The
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The Times reports that: A spokeswoman for BAT confirmed that the company paid no corporation tax in the UK during 2007. I know. I told
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Aberdeen Asset Management is the latest company to say it might leave the UK, according to the Times. So, I’ve looked at its accounts. This
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The sheer arrogance of some people and companies is staggering. I presume they think that because they’re big and command considerable resources the rest of
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Another company that doesn’t pay tax in the UK has announced its results. That’s British American Tobacco. In 2007 is had profit before tax of
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Lawrence Summers, formerly U.S. Treasury Secretary and ex-president of Harvard University, has just written a thoughtful column in the Financial Times. This is discussed on
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