In a recent series of videos that I posted on this blog I looked at the way in which tax havens have changed their activities
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What is the Tax Justice Network playing at by demanding that the UN take over responsibility for international tax deals?
I noted the concerns I have with the credibility of the calculations within the Tax Justice Network’s State of Tax Justice report for 2021 yesterday.
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Tax and benefit fraud – and securing the resources needed to tackle them – are amongst the biggest issues tax justice campaigners should now be talking about
There are two reports out today that indicate that fraud and official error are major contributors to the UK tax gap. The first is from
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The Tax Justice Network’s State of Tax Justice report for 2021 claims that tax haven abuse by wealthy people costs $171 billion a year. The actual figure is more likely to be $4 billion a year.
The Tax Justice Network has published its 2021 State of Tax Justice Report. Regular readers of this blog will know that I was underwhelmed by
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Tax Inspectors Without Borders
Tax Inspectors Without Borders – a great joint OECD / UNDP programme in which John Christensen, formerly of the Tax Justice Network has played a
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Tax spillovers: the podcast
I have for the last two years or so been doing a lot of work on what my Sheffield University colleague Professor Andrew Baker and
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It’s time to celebrate a global tax deal, and then to ask what’s next for tax justice to deliver
The OECD’s new global tax deal has been ratified by the G20, to no great surprise to anyone. There is almost universal condemnation of this
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Why the tax justice movement needs to move its thinking on
As I noted in a post at the weekend, the OECD has now concluded its latest global corporation tax deal. It is imperfect. It was
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It’s time to celebrate a global tax deal that delivers much for tax justice – and to now move on to other more pressing tax issues that need more attention now
The OECD global tax deal has been signed by 140 countries and jurisdictions. Some are claiming it represents a sell-out by the OECD and a
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