The Guardian ran an excellent article yesterday on the likely tax abuse inherent in the outsourced Covid track and trace contracts. As they recounted: Many
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All tax competition is harmful
Back in 1998 the OECD, the Paris based organisation that seeks to set the rules for cooperation on world tax, issued a document with this
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Where is the UK government on Biden’s tax plan? Is Johnson intending to come out as the friend of tax havens?
I wrote about the Biden tax plan last week. I mentioned that it might raise an estimated £13.5bn pa for the UK at the weekend. And
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Biden’s tax plan is about tackling the class warfare of the US elite
I am being asked by journalists to discuss this: That, of course, is the Biden tax plan, which is radically different from anything we have
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Making Tax Work
A significant part of my work over the last year that has not previously featured on this blog is featured in the latest newsletter of
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A global minimum corporation tax rate is good news, but the detail has to be right
Janet Yellen has, according to the FT, called for a global minimum corporation tax rate. I welcome the move. I actually wrote a paper suggesting
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Why does our the government want to facilitate fraud and corruption?
As the Guardian reported over the weekend: A multimillionaire MP who enjoys a Downton Abbey lifestyle funded by historical family links to the slave trade
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HMRC plans to provide a personalised service to offshore tax cheats to avoid having to name them as the criminals that they are
The FT has an article today in which they note that: Tax advisers said HM Revenue & Customs had made a “refreshing shift” away from
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The tax gap is huge, and we would have a fairer tax system and collect more tax if we resourced HMRC properly to address this issue
I was amused to note this on Fox Business news in the USA: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday that if the IRS were funded
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