The Tories have some very strange relationships with tax given that it is tax that permits their exercise of power, which is much of what
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UK company law and tax enforcement is so bad it’s almost as if the government wanted to encourage tax abuse
The Guardian ran an excellent article yesterday on the likely tax abuse inherent in the outsourced Covid track and trace contracts. As they recounted: Many
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Where is the UK government on Biden’s tax plan? Is Johnson intending to come out as the friend of tax havens?
I wrote about the Biden tax plan last week. I mentioned that it might raise an estimated £13.5bn pa for the UK at the weekend. And
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Why does our the government want to facilitate fraud and corruption?
As the Guardian reported over the weekend: A multimillionaire MP who enjoys a Downton Abbey lifestyle funded by historical family links to the slave trade
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HMRC plans to provide a personalised service to offshore tax cheats to avoid having to name them as the criminals that they are
The FT has an article today in which they note that: Tax advisers said HM Revenue & Customs had made a “refreshing shift” away from
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Reappraising the tax gap
I learned yesterday that a book to which I contributed a chapter has been published. That book was the final output of the Combating Financial
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The underpinnings of our society are now being broken by the government
There is the clearest indication given in the media this morning of the failing UK state. As the FT notes: The UK tax authority has
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Ten reasons why freeports are a bad idea
I was asked yesterday if I might be available to discuss freeports on the media and what my ‘top lines’ would be if I did.
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Why Freeports are a terrible idea
The government is proposing that there should be at least ten new freeports in the UK. These were so useless the last time that they were
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