It is time to return to my theme of tackling tax avoidance and evasion in the UK. These are three more ideas on ways to
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I was wrong: the government has no intention of regulating the tax profession
Yesterday I noted, based on a reading of the government’s new policy document on tax avoidance and tax evasion, that it intended to take action
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Tackling corporate tax evasion
Over the past couple of days I have been exploring ways to tackle tax abuse in the UK, setting out the objectives first, and then
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Lib Dems, tax and the election
I have just seen an email from a Lib Dem prospective parliamentary candidate that feels as if it has official sanction. It says: Liberal Democrats
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How to end the secrecy around offshore companies owning property in the UK
Some good work by Transparency International in the UK is reported by the FT today. As the FT notes: The secrecy surrounding foreign owners of
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It’s the rate of change that matters
The FT has noted today that India is introducing tough new laws on tax haven abusers as a reaction to the HSBC scandal. In a
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This looks like it could be fun on Monday
This email arrived this afternoon: ———— Public Accounts Committee Informal note to the media Subject: Tax avoidance and evasion: HSBC The Committee has decided to
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People do get the difference between tax avoidance and evasion – and don’t like either
As Economia magazine, and many others, have noted: The majority of the British public thinks it is unacceptable to avoid paying tax, according to a
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It is civil society that is leading the way on tax thinking
I liked this comment in the Economist yesterday in an article discussing the problems with automatic information exchange from tax havens under the OECD’s proposed Common
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