As the Guardian reports this morning: Proposals by the UK government to stop collecting information showing how the wealthy pass on their assets from one
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The Isle of Man should be hanging its head in shame at the lame excuses for secrecy that it has to offer
The Bishop of the Isle of Man asked an interesting question in the Isle of Man’s parliament – the Tynwald – yesterday (in which he
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Online VAT fraud goes unpunished
The following press release was issued by Labour Front Bench Treasury spokesperson Rob Marris MP, working in association with long term anti-VAT fraud campaigner Richard
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The UK’s position on sharing beneficial ownership data is totally hypocritical
The Treasury issued the following remarkably breathy press release last night: Chancellor George Osborne today (Thursday 14 April) unveiled a ground-breaking international deal to automatically
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The Public Accounts Committee is deeply unimpressed by HMRC’s performance on tax abuse
The following press release from the Public Accounts Committee seems to be worth sharing in full because it reflects a great deal of what I
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Can a government committed to closing all but 14 of the UK’s tax offices be serious about tackling tax abuse?
One of the regular commentators on this blog who does, I believe, work for HMRC made this comment last night: And then there is the
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Labour’s ten point anti-tax abuse plan is a good start
Labour has, according to the Mirror, published the following ten point tax plan: 1 An immediate public inquiry “to establish the harm done to the
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France and Germany need to deliver more than words on tax havens
As David Cameron was very clearly failing to deliver any change in the behaviour and practice of the UK’s tax havens as a result of
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The tyranny of the UK’s tax havens is set to continue
Two things happened as a result of yesterday’s announcement with regard to the relationship between the UK and its tax havens by David Cameron in
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