HMRC issued a breathy press release overnight saying: HMRC has collected £1 billion in tax payments from users of tax avoidance schemes as a result
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HMRC and I are singing from a hymn sheet, if only for the first verse
HMRC published a new consultation document on increasing large business tax compliance yesterday. I welcome it. Tax avoidance or ‘aggressive tax planning’ Tax avoidance or
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Let’s hope there’s some tax in it
I couldn’t help but note these adjacent comments in an FT email this morning: Reaching for the Starbucks Global coffee chain Starbucks reported one of
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A rare politician
I mentioned earlier this morning that I had been asked to make comment after a speech Jeremy Corbyn gave on the economy this morning. This
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HMRC say it: tax avoidance is a choice
HMRC has published a new review of large business tax practice. This will reward some study, but page 10 provides a lot of support for
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Will the patent box break BEPS?
Tax Notes International published an article on patent boxes yesterday. This got bounced around the Tax Justice Network senior adviser network and I thought I might
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Where does £5 billion of tax savings from beating avoidance and evasion come from?
This, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility, is where a little over £5 billion of savings from tackling tax avoidance and evasion come from over
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What would I do tomorrow? My 2015 budget
I gave a talk to Quakers in Bury StEdmunds last night, and thank them for their hospitality. In the question and answer session, which took
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Could UK and US squabbling on international tax reform just be an agreed ruse to kill the whole thing?
As the Guardian has reported: Britain has been attacked by a senior US official for undermining progress on a global clampdown on tax avoidance by
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