I feel somewhat reluctant to return to the issue of my tax gap estimate, but since it is causing further debate I will. Let’s be
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HMRC underestimate the UK tax gap by £55 billion
I wrote this yesterday about HMRC’s tax gap estimates for this year, which had then not been published: I gather HMRC will be publishing their
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The UK tax gap is £90 billion a year
I gather HMRC will be publishing their latest tax gap figures this week. The last are here. I can make a fairly confident prediction. The
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The hidden money – from Stephen Fry
No, corporate tax avoidance is not legal
Nick Shaxson, who wrote Treasure Islands, has a post under the above title on FT Alphaville this morning. It’s long. It’s good. It’s free to
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Tax spillover assessments: an idea whose time has come
What I am pretty confident is my most significant academic publication to date has just appeared in print, in Global Policy journal. It’s also available
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Tax spillover: the way to assess a country’s tax risk
I gave a talk in Vienna last night. These were the slides: I hope the logic flows. I will do more posts on tax spillover
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BAT proves it’s time for companies to out their cards face up on the table
The Tax Justice Network has reported this morning that: For every dollar British American Tobacco (BAT) paid in tax in the countries it operates in,
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A decade on it’s time to stop Google’s tax abuse
It’s a decade ago that I contributed to the first ever story on Google’s tax affairs and the need for reform. In the process I
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