When I first began working on tax havens in the early years of this century it quickly became very clear that there was no precise
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The Scottish government needs to say what it means about fair tax
I noted this in the new deal between the SNP and Greens in Scotland: I highlighted the last paragraph for a reason. Defining tax avoidance
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Why are ministers indifferent to our food supply chains being asset-stripped?
As the Guardian has reported: Let’s be clear how private equity works. It buys companies using debt finance. The private equity investor usually has little
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If a company is not willing to put its tax dealings face up on the table, investors should walk away.
International Investment invited me to write a piece on my opinion of the view that the investor should take on future trends in corporation tax
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Where tax havens meet monopoly power
I share this post from the Balanced Economy Project: Welcome to the latest edition of The Counterbalance, the newsletter of the Balanced Economy Project. There’s been a
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Tax justice and tax transparency in 2021
In its eighteen or so years in existence, the tax justice movement has always campaigned for tax transparency. So, it has delivered country-by-country reporting for
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What is tax justice about in 2021?
Tax justice has been going for eighteen years now. It has been phenomenally successful. We’ve won country-by-country reporting, beaten a lot of tax haven activity,
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What are tax havens used for in 2021?
Most people still think tax havens are used for cheating income and corporation taxes, but the truth is that much of that is easier using
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The Tax Justice Network’s review of the State of Tax Justice is not credible
I have this morning published a new report that considers the appropriateness of the claims made in the Tax Justice Network’s (TJN) State of Tax
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