One of Rishi Sunak’s big plans for the UK is the introduction of so-called ‘freeports’. He has been promoting them for a long time, and
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This is reposted from the Tax Justice Network with permission. It is written by Alex Cobham, the TJN CEO. I co-authored Tax Us If You
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This won’t go anywhere of course, but it’s still worth noting: At least some parliamentarians think that attaching reasonable conditions to bailouts is appropriate.

The USA blew apart world attempts to find a basis for taxing digital companies last night. The FT had the story here.  I’d scheduled this
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The article that follows was written by my friend and colleague, Prof Leonard Seabrooke of Copenhagen Business School. It was originally published in Danish in
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As the Guardian has noted this morning: The highest paid 1% of British earners received nearly 17% of all the country’s income ahead of the Covid-19 crisis,
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This was formally announced this morning: Nordic Tax Research Council’s article prize 2020 Nordic Tax Research Council has awarded its 2020 article prize to Professor
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The Bank of England issued a press release this morning saying that new conditions have been attached to their coronavirus crisis funding facility (CCFF). As
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The OECD is holding a conference on possible reforms to its version of country-by-country reporting today. Tax authorities, business and civil society are represented. In
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