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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Country-by-country reporting is beating transfer mispricing, as I always said it would
As Accountancy Age has reported: A 49% uptick in the amount of extra tax collected from investigations into large corporates shifting profits overseas is an
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Sunak: they non-dom hedge fund managers friend
Rowena Mason noted in the Guardian yesterday that Sunak has not made many big statements on tax. Nor has he had a lot to say
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The fight against tax havens was worth it
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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The very wealthy in the UK really do pay much less tax than they should
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has issued a new report this morning which is firmly in their own tax territory and appears to make recommendations
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Is HM Revenue & Customs turning the payment of tax into a voluntary activity for some?
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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The UK needs a new tax politics
HM Revenue & Customs is under fire from the Public Accounts Committee this morning, and rightly so. In a new report they say: HMRC ignorance
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Total government losses to error and fraud are not £29bn as Lord Agnew suggested – they are much bigger than that, and they turn a deliberate blind eye to it
Lord Agnew resigned yesterday suggesting in the process that government losses to fraud were at least £29 billion a year. I am afraid I have
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Labour has to work out what being ‘pro-business’ means
Another day, another thread from Twitter: In an interview with the Financial Times Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP has pledged that a government led by
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