From Hansard: Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much tax has been repatriated to the UK by each country adopting
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Closing The Tax Gap
Accountancy Age has reported that: The new head of HM Revenue and Customs, Mike Clasper, has made ‘closing the tax gap’ one of four top
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Transfer mispricing costs the developign four times more than total aid flows
It’s been a privilege of mine to work with the team from Global Financial Integrity over the last year or two. Indeed, I’m visiting them
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Invade Cayman?
David Cay Johnston has an article in Mother Jones in the US in which he says (amongst much else): In 1983 just 10 percent of
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Clearing up some misunderstandings on the EU Savings Tax Directive and the Isle of Man
A commentator on this blog has written: Having an interest in the KSF IOM affair, where we invested funds for overseas resident grandchildren (there was
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Do people seek to avoid tax?
Mark Lee is a man for whom I have a lot of respect and time, both professionally and just because he seems to me a
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Tightening up on the intermediaries
The Tax Justice Network is beginning new research project. As is asked on the TJN blog: Some jurisdictions license and regulate intermediaries such as legal
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The Isle of Man can’t spot tax evasion when it’s doing it
As some will be aware, there has been considerable correspondence on this site recently from those from tax havens who have tried to justify the
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Have we got our priorities right?
The Public Accounts Committee report on the Hidden Economy highlighted a few unusual statitics. Take this for example: Q: How many people were prosecuted for
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