People have been asking me for direct links to the new Tax Justice Network report “The Price of Offshore Revisited”. So there it is. And this
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Coutts – a nationalised bank – and tax evasion in Switzerland
The Suddeutsche Zeitung has reported that (via Google translate) The purchase of a tax disc with data on approximately 1,000 customers of the Zurich branch
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Half of people in the UK would cheat on tax if they thought they could get away with it
MoneySavingExpert.com has run a poll on people’s attitude to tax cheating in the light of Jimmy Carr’s escapades. The results are fascinating, although of course not scientific as the
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A Guide to Money Laundering
Global Witness produced the images that follow, very recently. I reproduce them with their permission. They’re powerful for one good reason. They’re just what happens. Crime
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We’ll only trust trusts when we can trust they’re on record
Over 99% of the blogs on Tax Research UK have been written by me. That’s 8,400 of them over six years at a rate of more than
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Jersey would be welcome at the Tax Justice Network conference next year
Mike Dun from Jersey joined the Tax Justice Network at its conference in Essex last week and made this video. Skip the first twenty seconds or
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Five-point plan to curb tax cheating by big firms and super-rich
Some MPs get precisely what is required to beat tax cheats. This letter was in the Guardian this morning: Tax cheating by Jimmy Carr, Gary Barlow and Chris Hoy must
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Tax evasion – why HMRC’s estimates are wrong
HMRC dedicate a lot of time in their response to my work on the tax gap saying why my estimate of tax evasion might be wrong. What
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Shadow economies all around the world: Model-based estimates
There was an exceptionally useful document on VoxEU yesterday on the size of the global shadow economy. I have, of course, written on this issue.
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