There are Members of Parliament who are interested in tax abuse. And there are those who answer their questions. I am grateful to David Lowry,
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There is only one right capital gains tax rate and that’s the same as income tax
The Guardian reports this morning that: George Osborne’s budget is handing a tax cut averaging £3,000 to some of the wealthiest people in the country
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US companies expect to pay more tax, as we intended
The FT has noted that: A global crackdown on tax avoidance has forced a surge of warnings by multinational companies that higher payments are set
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The crackdown on tax abuse is failing because HMRC don’t have the resources to chase the crooks
The Mail has reported: A clampdown on tax evaders who have salted cash away offshore will fail to hit its target of more than £1
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It looks like Osborne has admitted the Google tax has failed. So now we have mark two
This is from the Budget report: This is going to be fun. For example, what’s a low or no tax jurisdiction? The UK is going
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A budget for the UK’s tax avoiders
For a long time most people have associated tax avoidance with big multinational companies. George Osborne took some welcome steps to tackle them today: I
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Ramsay rules, so tax avoiders should stop playing silly games
I remember Dave Hartnett once saying to me that he would love to legislate the Ramsay principle but did not think it possible. That drove
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Google regrets
I am grateful to US CPA Jeffery Kadet for sending me one set of Google’s 2013 Ireland accounts, in which he draw attention to this
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Time for a minimum corporation tax?
Two quite separate email conversations drew me to the subject of minimum corporation tax rates this weekend. One was with old friend Krishen Mehta, a
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