I really did not believe that the government would be daft enough to signal quite so soon that they really do intend to turn the
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How to find £50 billion
This post began life as a Twitter thread. It builds on a post made here, yesterday. Some added charts and links have been included. —–
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Tax avoidance is real, and not the same as tax evasion
Richard Brooks of Private Eye is chair of Tax Watch UK, and he has written to me this morning saying that the characterisation I have
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We don’t need more threats to prosecute tax cheats to increase tax revenue: we need a general anti-avoidance principle
It would seem that I walked into another minor hornet’s nest when tweeting, and then blogging, about Tax Watch UK director George Turner’s suggestion that
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The Tax Justice Network’s new estimates of tax lost to tax abuse look to be quite seriously understated
Over the last few months a lot of my time has been devoted to work in the national debt. The result of much of that
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The government is going for freeports – without any legislative basis for doing so, and despite the fact that they’re known to be hubs for illegal activity
Earlier this year Rishi Sunak undertook a consultation on freeports. I submitted extensive evidence. So did others. I could not see an objective observer who
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The UK government said it could not legislate for Jersey to stop tax abuse and corruption, but apparently it can when it comes to fishing
The UK government always said it could not legislate for Jersey. And so it said it would not intervene to stop tax abuse and corruption.
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The UK’s company regulation system is a licensed mechanism for the supply of corruption services
The Financial Times has reported this morning that: Businesses are being set up in the UK at a record rate, according to the government’s register
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The Public Accounts Committee do not believe HMRC’s tax gap data, as I’ve been saying for years
The Public Accounts Committee has published a report this morning on HM Revenue & Customs’ approach to estimating the U.K. tax gap. It is pretty
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