Greg Wise’s Dispatches on Channel 4 last night showed that the tax avoidance industry is alive and well and exploiting tax loopholes. Afterwards HMRC issued
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The Fair Tax Mark: an answer when we need one to tax abuse
This comes from the Independent this afternoon: At a time when public trust in business is plummeting, tax justice has been called ‘the Fairtrade of our
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Is the All Party Parliamentary Group on Responsible Tax serious? Or just a KPMG front?
I have just received the following from Margaret Hodge in her capacity as chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Responsible Taxation: I have
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Yesterday’s Treasury Committee hearing
For those who want to see what was said yesterday the hearing is available on line, here. Andrew Tyrie called it The Richard Murphy Show.
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Today’s Treasury Select Committee: my speaking notes
Treasury Select Committee Hearing 2 February 2016 Speaking notes prepared by Richard Murphy FCA Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University, London and
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31 countries sign up to country-by-country reporting
This press release came from the OECD late yesterday: 27/01/2016 – As part of continuing efforts to boost transparency by multinational enterprises (MNEs), 31 countries
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Google’s unfair tax is actively supported by the UK government
The Mail has reported this morning that: Giant corporations such as Google will ‘inevitably’ pay less tax than ordinary firms, one of Britain’s top Revenue
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Fisking Google’s tax letter
Google has written a letter on its tax affairs to the FT. Unsurprisingly, they published it. But what is interesting about it is what it
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Labour calls on National Audit Office to intervene on Google tax
I noticed this letter on my Twitter timeline last night: Writing to the National Audit Office, Seema Malhotra, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said:
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