The IMF’s Fiscal Monitor report published last week entitled Taxing Times has to be quoted at length when it comes to the reform of the
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In the interests of honest, fairness, business and the services we all depend upon the time has come to close the tax gap
It would be all too easy to dismiss anything Chris Huhne writes as being from the mind of a man show revealed a less than
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Campaigning against tax havens has worked, but we still have a way to go
In November 2011 I worked with International Tax Review to leak that the UK’s Crown Dependencies were going to sign what have been called ‘son of
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Automatic information exchange: a video update
I’ve been asked a pile of questions by a journalist in automatic information exchange. I could have spent ages providing a written answer or as long
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How big is tax evasion? The Guardian’s visualisations based on my work
The Guardian did a blog on tax evasion yesterday. The data was drawn from my November 2011 work for the Tax Justice Network. As they reported:
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Barclays is quitting some tax havens – but the reasons given tell a sorry tale
After news of Jersey’s continuing decline yesterday it is interesting to note the report in the FT this morning that Barclays is quitting many markets:
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The VAT Gap – 18% of EU GDP
The EU issued a summary of a new report today on the EU wide VAT gap that says: The VAT Gap across all 26 Member
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10 years for benefit fraud is absurd when 99% of tax fraudsters walk away with their anonymity intact
The Independent carries the following, absurd, report this morning: Benefit cheats will face increased jail terms of up to 10 years in a crackdown on
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Benefit errors cost £1 million a day. Tax avoidance and evasion cost £260 million a day
The Daily telegraph is very vexed today that there are £1 million of benefit payment errors a day in the UK. To put this in
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