I am aware that Emma Thompson and Greg Wise are threatening to go on tax strike until HSBC are prosecuted for assisting tax evasion. I
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Syriza has the nigh on impossible task of presenting a list of reforms to the IMF, ECB and EU today that does at the same
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I was asked yesterday how we could beat tax evasion in the UK. This line of questioning usually starts with the person asking (often, as
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I’ve discussed before whether or not HMRC were right to let HSBC customers whose identities were only known to them as a result of their
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There were 1,046,398 sanctions, or financial penalties, imposed on Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants in 2013. Five years after HMRC got the HSBC data there has been one
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Tax QC Jolyon Maugham had an interesting article on Comment is Free yesterday. As some will know, Jolyon and I cross swords about as often
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Yesterday’s PAC exchanges were not the best. And they did not always hit their mark. And yet some fascinating insights came out. For me one
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It is, I think, widely agreed that it is a scandal that fewer prosecutions have resulted from the HSBC leaks than anyone could reasonably have
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There is a load of nonsense being talked all around government and the media tonight suggesting that maybe no-one knew about HSBC’s tax issues at
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