A little unexpectedly I have been invited to attend a speech Jeremy Corbyn is giving this morning and to then sit on a panel afterwards
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What would I do tomorrow? My 2015 budget
I gave a talk to Quakers in Bury StEdmunds last night, and thank them for their hospitality. In the question and answer session, which took
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It’s time the government came clean on the tax gap
I see from Hansard that David Gauke, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, was discussing the tax gap in Parliament on Tuesday. Amongst the claims
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Tax abuse goes on and on and on….
The EU announced incredibly weak plans to tackle tax abuse yesterday. And as the FT reports, the reaction was swift: Europe’s biggest business lobby group
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Are estimates of higher rate tax yields that are fuelling political debate correct?
Tax is one of the key battlegrounds in the UK’s general election due on May 7. No tax is more important in that debate than
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Does tax avoidance provide a pot of gold to politicians?
The FT notes this morning that: The Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour say they want to raise an extra £5bn, £6bn and £7.5bn a year
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The Green Party and tax
I have looked at the Labour and Tory manifestos and commented on LibDem tax plans. Now it is time to look at the Greens, whose
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A £52 billion corporate tax gap
According to the FT over the weekend: Listed companies in developed markets are avoiding at least $82bn of tax a year by using tax havens
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Have corporation tax receipts really risen?
There was an article in the Telegraph a couple of days ago in which it was claimed: As it happens, companies are paying an increasing amount of
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