As academics know, the REF, or Research Excellence Framework, is a big deal as far as universities go. Happening once every even years it appraises
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I spend a lot of time criticising the management of HM Revenue & Customs, and for good reason, in my opinion. So, I should give
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My comments on the tax gap made yesterday were picked up in the Guardian which quotes me saying: Richard Murphy, a tax expert, said the
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It is HMRC tax gap day – which is the day when they admit how much tax they did not collect, in their estimation. My
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I campaigned for automatic information exchange from tax havens for a long time. Perhaps my most important paper on the issue was published in 2009.
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I addressed a meeting of the European Parliament sub-committee on Tax Matters today, addressing the issue of how Russian oligarchs abuse tax systems to avoid
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Back in 2o12 I leaked to the International Tax Review that the UK was finally going to crack down on the absence of tax transparency
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AccountingWEB has a chilling article out this week by tax commentator Philip Fisher. As he notes: In November 2021, the National Audit Office (NAO) issued
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Boris Johnson announced sanctions against Russia yesterday in response to its invasion of Ukraine that made him and his government looked like a laughingstock. Five
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