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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It really is time Jersey Finance tried humility and a little honest candour
Geoff Cook at Jersey Finance is stomping his foot and hoping the world will notice. As he says in a recent comment on their web site: EU’s Tax Evasion Drive
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Believing that taxation is theft is now, officially, an extreme view
The opinion that taxation is theft is now officially and even legally considered to be an extreme view. I can say this based on the
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