I am in Beirut to discuss the impact of illicit financial flows (IFF), including tax abuse, on developing countries. The issue is enormous. UN ESCWA,
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The tax gap and how to tackle it
I am off to Beirut this morning to speak at a UN conference. The theme is tackling illicit financial flows. I will be talking the
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Murphy v Laffer in International Tax Review
I still do not have the video of the above debate, which took place a couple of weeks ago at the OECD. However, the International
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Beating the Canadian tax gap
I have evidence in the Canadian parliament (by video link) this afternoon: This is what I had to say on the proposed Canadian tax gap measure:
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The radical tax policies I’d be looking for if we had a general election now
I am delighted Corbyn has backed the idea that he will follow his party conference on a second referendum today. Assuming that the conference is given
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Beating the tax gap
I am on my way to Brussels this morning to speak at an EU Parliament event organised by the Socialist and Democrats Group of MEPs
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HMRC have lost touch with the reality of what is happening on the ground with regard to VAT
A month or so ago I made a series of Freedom of Information requests of HMRC with regard to VAT. They are all summarised in
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Turkey will be happy to make it to Christmas
Turkey is in trouble. It’s banks cannot pay their foreign currency debts. People have borrowed in cheap foreign currencies and now cannot afford to repay.
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The UK’s VAT gap – my evidence to the Treasury Committee
I gave evidence to the EU parliament last week on the VAT tax gap. This morning our parliament has published evidence I submitted to them
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