I am in Beirut to discuss the impact of illicit financial flows (IFF), including tax abuse, on developing countries. The issue is enormous. UN ESCWA,
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The tax gap and how to tackle it
I am off to Beirut this morning to speak at a UN conference. The theme is tackling illicit financial flows. I will be talking the
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The UK government has not got the political will to tackle money laundering
The UK government is acting typically hypocritically on money laundering this morning. As the Guardian, amongst many others, reports: Estate agents, high street solicitors and
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Murphy v Laffer in International Tax Review
I still do not have the video of the above debate, which took place a couple of weeks ago at the OECD. However, the International
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Murphy – Laffer Tax Co-op Debate
I mentioned this morning that I was debating the faults of tax competition with Arthur Laffer in the appropriate environment of the OECD today. That
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The UK as a corporate tax haven
The Mail has launched a campaign for the reform of UK corporation tax. That’s about a decade late, but everyone is welcome to the party.
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Beating the Canadian tax gap
I have evidence in the Canadian parliament (by video link) this afternoon: This is what I had to say on the proposed Canadian tax gap measure:
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The radical tax policies I’d be looking for if we had a general election now
I am delighted Corbyn has backed the idea that he will follow his party conference on a second referendum today. Assuming that the conference is given
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HMRC have lost touch with the reality of what is happening on the ground with regard to VAT
A month or so ago I made a series of Freedom of Information requests of HMRC with regard to VAT. They are all summarised in
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