I mentioned yesterday that I was to give the Salter lecture for the Quaker Socialist Society at the Quaker’s Yearly Meeting in Bath last night.
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Welcome to the Hiddenwealth Games
As I watched the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games last night it occurred to me just how many participating states are considered to be
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The hidden economy
The ethics of tax compliance
When I began working on tax there were only two available descriptions of tax behaviour. They were tax avoidance and tax evasion. There was no
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Labour’s new tax policy: welcome moves in the right direction
I have already noted Labour’s press release, issued overnight, that might best be seen as the opening salvo in the tax debate that is going
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Labour and tax: the policy battles begin
Labour published the following press release late last night. Given how significant tax will be in the next election, and because this represents an opening
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Government introduces bill to make tax fraud even easier
In May I published my updated work on tax evasion in the UK. Entitled ‘In the Shade’, one of the explanations that it offered for
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A society that fails to fight widespread tax evasion proclaims its own corruption
The New York Times has an article on Gabriel Zucman’s estimates of the sums hidden in tax havens this morning. I recommend reading it although
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Tax risk, legal risk, tax avoidance and rules of thumb
I wrote a blog in Saturday which read as follows (to save you he time of going to read it): I was asked yesterday by
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