Some of the smaller economic brains inside the Brexit camp are suggesting that the UK should cut it’s corporation tax rate to 10%. Let me
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The corporation tax shortfall was completely predictable
Everyone seems surprised that corporation tax receipts in September fell short. I confess I am not sure why. As I showed in 2014 corporation tax
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Philip Green, ‘Sir’
I first wrote about ‘Sir’ Philip Green’s tax avoidance on this blog in 2006, and went on to help the BBC make a programme on
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A note from Bratislava: Brexit, economics and tax
I came away from a day of discussion on economic affairs and tax with MEPs and EU member state MPs in Bratislava with a number
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eBay, Facebook and Uber prove we need more radical tax reform
The stories of multinational companies treating the UK tax system with contempt continue to flow. In the last few days there have been eBay, Facebook
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No one has a fiduciary duty to not pay tax, including Donald Trump
The Trump campaign team issued a statement yesterday saying that: Mr. Trump is a highly-skilled businessman who has a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his
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Time for an Alternative Minimum Corporation Tax?
I have a new article under the above title published by BNA Bloomberg. The aim of what I call an Alternative Minimum Corporation Tax is
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Dealing with the problem of foreign owned property in the UK
Foreign owned property, bought largely for speculative purposes, is hollowing out life in London. Sadiq Khan is right to be worried about the consequences and
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Paying money into an ISA is not tax avoidance
Some of the dsebate at the Revenue Bar Association last night focussed on the difficulty of defining tax avoidance. I offered a definition in the
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