According to the Guardian: David Cameron will promise to act against corrupt foreigners who buy up luxury properties in the UK using secretive holding companies
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Why, oh why, aren’t HMRC doing what is really needed when it comes to data collection?
The government has issued a flood of new tax consultations, almost as if they wish to overwhelm the market and make sure only very limited
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Who has got the most tax evasion disclosures amongst the Crown Dependencies?
The government has today announced new figures for settlements made under tax disclosure arrangements created for Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. The data is
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Where does £5 billion of tax savings from beating avoidance and evasion come from?
This, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility, is where a little over £5 billion of savings from tackling tax avoidance and evasion come from over
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What would I do tomorrow? My 2015 budget
I gave a talk to Quakers in Bury StEdmunds last night, and thank them for their hospitality. In the question and answer session, which took
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Tax abuse goes on and on and on….
The EU announced incredibly weak plans to tackle tax abuse yesterday. And as the FT reports, the reaction was swift: Europe’s biggest business lobby group
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Talk to the EU Parliament today: a little tax haven theory
I was meant to be making a presentation in the EU Parliament this afternoon. Unfortunately due to an accident involving the train in which I
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David Cameron won’t beat illegal immigration until he tackles the shadow economy
The Guardian has reported this morning: David Cameron will …. [announce] details of a new immigration bill to be included in the Queen’s speech, which
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Will corporate tax abuse end?
There were two corporate tax abuse stories yesterday. One was about Next, where HMRC believe they have closed a £22 million loophole the company was
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