The Guardian has reported that: Britain will reject plans announced in Brussels this week to combat industrial-scale tax avoidance by the world’s biggest multinationals, the
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Tax abuse goes on and on and on….
The EU announced incredibly weak plans to tackle tax abuse yesterday. And as the FT reports, the reaction was swift: Europe’s biggest business lobby group
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The EU says its getting tough on tax, but isn’t
The EU has announced its new corporation tax action plan. It says: Today the Commission presented an Action Plan to fundamentally reform corporate taxation in
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Shell wants to keep the tax world as it is – unsurprisingly
The FT reports this morning that: One of Europe’s largest companies has warned that tensions over a planned crackdown on corporate tax avoidance pose a
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The Fair Tax Pledge and accountants: putting the profession on risk for tax abuse
One of the options available to a person signing the Fair Tax Pledge is to say that they have an accountant advising them on their
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The lawyers are still abusing
The communique from the G8 summit ion Lough Erne in Northern Ireland in 2013 said: [E]ach of us will … tackle this issue to ensure
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Just one in three people think large companies are paying their fair share in tax
New research commissioned by energy firm SSE plc and ICAS, the leading professional body of Chartered Accountants, has exposed the credibility gap between the public
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Europe: the final countdown….
As the Tax Justice Network notes today: A series of news stories came out this week about European Union proposals to tackle tax avoidance by
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Talk to the EU Parliament today: a little tax haven theory
I was meant to be making a presentation in the EU Parliament this afternoon. Unfortunately due to an accident involving the train in which I
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