The new Guidance on the new General Anti-Abuse Rule (GAAR) in UK taxation has been published today. I sat on the committee drafting this guidance,
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Europolitics published an article with (near enough) the above title yesterday, saying: Momentum was created during the informal EU Ecofin Council on 12-13 April to aim for an agreement
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According to Reuters: Tax dodging causes the European Union to lose around 1 trillion euros of income each year, the president of the European Council said
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Unite the Union asked me to write their submission to the Labour Party policy review on tax. I’ve now done that and you can get the 28
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I am on my way to Brussels this morning to talk about ten year of tax justice to the European Socialist group in the parliament.
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I am making a presentation and taking questions at a hearing of the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance today. Thankfully I am doing
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I noticed an exchange in Parliament yesterday, albeit in written answers, in which Catherine McKinnell MP asked David Gauke MP, the minister she shadows: How many staff he expects to
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As I’ve noted, the EU’s now issued a coherent strategy for tackling tax evasion and tax avoidance that it is asking the member states to adopt. There
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HMRC’s beginning an ad campaign to close the tax gap. I gather it will look like this: Is that really the best they can do.
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