The following news release was issued by my employer, the University of Sheffield, this morning, and relates to a story here on Friday: New standards
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The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency publishes its new Principle for Tax Transparency
I am pleased to report that the Global Initiative for Financial Transparency has approved its new Principles for Tax Transparency. In itself, I think this
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Tax spillovers, the REF and tax transparency
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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Tackling tax abuse by the wealthy matters
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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Tory leadership hopefuls are playing a game of fantasy tax cuts and we’ll all pay a heavy price for that
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Tax cuts are in the news as Tory party leadership candidates are talking about them as if
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On the tax gap, in the Guardian
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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HMRC is marking its own homework again on the tax gap – and very oddly found it did almost exactly the same as it always does
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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HM Revenue & Customs really do not want to collect tax from the wealthy
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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If PWC want more legitimate tax systems this is what they need to do
I spoke this week at a conference organised by PricewaterhouseCoopers on the legitimacy of tax systems. The conference was held under the Chatham House rule
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