I addressed a meeting of the European Parliament sub-committee on Tax Matters today, addressing the issue of how Russian oligarchs abuse tax systems to avoid
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Country-by-country reporting is beating transfer mispricing, as I always said it would
As Accountancy Age has reported: A 49% uptick in the amount of extra tax collected from investigations into large corporates shifting profits overseas is an
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The fight against tax havens was worth it
Back in 2o12 I leaked to the International Tax Review that the UK was finally going to crack down on the absence of tax transparency
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Is the Chancellor’s wife really a non-dom? It’s a question needing an answer
I have campaigned on domicile related issues ever since I began working on tax justice and have written newspaper articles and broadcast on the issue.
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Is HM Revenue & Customs turning the payment of tax into a voluntary activity for some?
AccountingWEB has a chilling article out this week by tax commentator Philip Fisher. As he notes: In November 2021, the National Audit Office (NAO) issued
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Trust registration starts from 1 September: another barrier to tax transparency is falling
In 2005 John Christensen and I wrote this in Tax Us If You Can – the manifesto of the fledgling Tax Justice Network that went
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The UK needs a new tax politics
HM Revenue & Customs is under fire from the Public Accounts Committee this morning, and rightly so. In a new report they say: HMRC ignorance
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If we want thriving markets in the UK we have to beat tax evasion, but the government is not listening
I noticed this article in the American Economic Review yesterday: Nothing surprises me about this finding, which is completely consistent with arguments I have been
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Can we tax multi-millionaires?
The video in this post is the third in a series on how to tax multimillionaires. The first and second are here. In this video
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