HMRC have announced a new tax amnesty. And this time it is for big business. It’s called the Profit Diversion Compliance Facility, and what it
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Tackling high pay through the tax code – to collect £4.6 billion in tax
I have contributed this piece to a new Class Think Tank publication to mark what is called Fat Cat Day: Tackling high pay through the
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Tax avoidance is not theft
I have learned that many campaigning NGOs are planning to describe tax avoidance as theft in the future. I am quite worried by this. First,
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Digital taxes are not the answer to the taxation of companies like Google
According to the FT: France and Germany have abandoned EU plans to impose a wide-ranging digital tax on tech companies, in favour of a narrow
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The G20 is committed to taxing multinational corporations on a fictional basis so no wonder international tax is a mess
This weekend’s G20 Summit declaration included a worrying paragraph on tax. The part about which I am concerned (which opened the paragraph) said: We will
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The tax gap and how to tackle it
I am off to Beirut this morning to speak at a UN conference. The theme is tackling illicit financial flows. I will be talking the
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Tax justice continues to attract attention
I was in the media a couple of times over the weekend. Since the comments were carefully scripted I won’t repeat them here. The Mail
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Murphy v Laffer in International Tax Review
I still do not have the video of the above debate, which took place a couple of weeks ago at the OECD. However, the International
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Murphy – Laffer Tax Co-op Debate
I mentioned this morning that I was debating the faults of tax competition with Arthur Laffer in the appropriate environment of the OECD today. That
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