As the FT notes this morning: The amount of additional corporation tax collected through investigations into Britain’s largest businesses has fallen to its lowest level
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The missing part is the tax gap – video from the European Commission
The EU issued a new video yesterday on the tax gap. Called The Missing Part, click on the picture to view it, or click here:
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It’s time we had a proper pro-business agenda in this country. It’s called tax justice.
I’ve been on both Sky and BBC Scotland this morning talking about the fact that HM Revenue and Customs has today again published the names and photographs of
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US corporations pay tax at 17% – and that’s just not enough to create a fair society.
Prof Kim Clausing sent me a link to a new report from the United States Government Accountability Office entitled ‘Corporate Income Tax: Effective Tax Rates Can Differ
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My report on the EU tax gap
For some reason my report on the EU tax gap is down on the Socialists and Democrats site where it belongs. So for the time
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Good to see that the IEA are now agreeing my figures for the tax gap – now when will HMRC?
I note, with curiosity, the following report in the Guardian this morning: Britain’s shadow economy is now worth £150bn a year — but it is
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The UK’s tax gap is down to a couple of pubs and a kebab shop according to HMRC
From the FT: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) stepped up its crackdown on tax evasion on Tuesday, publishing its second list of “deliberate tax defaulters”
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Barclays and HSBC make the case for unitary tax in the UK – because we’d have collected £2.6 billion more in 4 years
Since 2009, HSBC and Barclays bank may well have underpaid UK corporation tax to the tune of £2.6 billion. This figure represents the difference between
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Is the OECD about to fail to address tax abuse, yet again? The omens are not good
The OECD report to the G20 finance ministers meeting at the weekend was interesting. It said (and I have abbreviated a little): The OECD’s work
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