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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Singapore-on-Thames is coming: welcome to post-Brexit Britain, where only the wealthy matter
The government issued a response to its consultation on permitting the creation of Asset Holding Companies in the UK yesterday. In the summary it said:
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Time to move on from the straitjacket of the limited company
In 2007 I wrote the blog post that follows. This afternoon I am presenting the paper that is linked within that post to the Loan
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Tax avoidance is real, and not the same as tax evasion
Richard Brooks of Private Eye is chair of Tax Watch UK, and he has written to me this morning saying that the characterisation I have
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