Over the last few months a lot of my time has been devoted to work in the national debt. The result of much of that
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The government is going for freeports – without any legislative basis for doing so, and despite the fact that they’re known to be hubs for illegal activity
Earlier this year Rishi Sunak undertook a consultation on freeports. I submitted extensive evidence. So did others. I could not see an objective observer who
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Why is HMRC so sure that there is more tax to collect from multinationals?
The Financial Times has suggested this morning that: The British government has launched a crackdown on multinationals suspected of wrongly reducing their UK tax bills
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Ireland asked to justify its abusive tax policies and their impact on children
I was delighted to note the Irish Times reporting that: The United Nations is to examine whether Irish policies contribute to tax abuse by companies
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From tax havens to Trump – it’s all about playing the law
In many ways I rather suspect that Trump cannot believe his luck this morning. He’s won enough big states as I write before 9am to
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Goldman Sachs: suppliers of corruption services
Need I say more than this? I defined the suppliers of corruption services way back in 2007 as: 1. Those governments who supply the secrecy
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The UK government said it could not legislate for Jersey to stop tax abuse and corruption, but apparently it can when it comes to fishing
The UK government always said it could not legislate for Jersey. And so it said it would not intervene to stop tax abuse and corruption.
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Just 19% of businesses shun the use of tax havens
I picked this up from the Fair Tax Mark, and I think it worth sharing. The information comes from this year’s Business In The Community
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Whatever Liz Truss says about freeports today, their greatest benefit is to tax abusers and, worse still, organised crime
Liz Truss is, apparently, out and about, promoting freeports today. I recently submitted a fairly lengthy comment to the Government’s consultation on the creation of new Freeport
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