The November 2014 Tax Justice Network Podcast is out: ‘You can lie and you can steal from us again but this time we’ll know who
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‘Taxing across Borders’: An academic milestone
I wrote recently of the problem many have faced in estimating the losses arising from illicit financial flows through tax havens. As a result I
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Russell Brand on Irish water and trickle down
Russell Brand has this one, on the Irish water tax, absolutely right. I’m not sure who briefed him, but he is spot on (and he
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It’s not by chance that HMRC is not closing the tax gap: it’s policy
As the BBC has noted: The Public Accounts Committee has criticised HM Revenue & Customs for its “unacceptably slow” action against tax avoiders. Margaret Hodge,
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It’s time to sack Juncker
As the Guardian reports: Jean-Claude Juncker is facing a vote in the European parliament to declare him unfit for his post as head of the
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Why the NGO data debate needs to move on
There has been a growing and notable tendency of late amongst those who declare themselves open to tax reform to benefit developing countries to, at
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An Office for Tax Responsibility: an idea whose time is coming
I floated the idea of an Office for Tax Responsibility at the PAC Conference yesterday, and the response was interesting and favourable from some key
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Today at the PAC Conference
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee is holding what is, I think, the first ever conference staged by such a committee today, looking, almost
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Tackling offshore tax abuse is great. Now can we tackle it at home as well?
George Osborne is in Berlin today to sign a new deal that will make automatic information exchange from some tax havens a reality. As I understand
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