From Transparency International:
What’s the tax gap?
HMRC has been negligent on VAT fraud
The National Audit Office report into HMRC’s mishandling of online VAT fraud, which it suggests has been costing the country at least £1.5 billion a
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The Tax Justice Network Beneficial Ownership checklist
I’m sharing this blog from the Tax Justice Network because I had some input into the project to which it refers and am doing some
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Why we do not need corporation tax returns on public record
Labour has announced that it is making it policy that large companies should publish their tax returns alongside their accounts. I wrote about this issue
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HMRC v OLAF
The £2 billion (and rising) cost of HMRC’s failure to police our ports
Comments from me were included in a report on HMRC’s failure to collect customs duties owing at UK ports on Radio 4 on Wednesday night.
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The Panama Papers: One year on
I am speaking at this event: To see the full programme, please click here. To register for the event, please click here. GUE/NGL MEPs are
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It’s not by chance that the UK is the centre of corporate fraud: ministers chose to make it that way
The Guardian has today reported massive money laundering through UK banks: some $740 million is alleged to have be n illicitly laundered in the UK. Almost
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