I liked this form the Tax Justice Network: The full report is here. Note however two things. The first is that the UK is not
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Question of the day: should we bail out companies that use tax havens?
As was noted in some media yesterday: Denmark and Poland are refusing to let companies registered in offshore tax havens access financial aid from their coronavirus bailout packages. The
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The Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) project
The Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) project is a new initiative that I am creating which will be published in the first instance as a series
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Bailouts should be subject to conditions, and most especially so in the case of bigger businesses
The FT has noted that: Muriel Pénicaud, the French labour minister, has personally called the bosses of big French companies to persuade some of them
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Tax abuse, tax havens and Modern Monetary Theory
I was asked yesterday on this blog why issues such as tax abuse and the use of tax havens remain important when modern monetary theory
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Could tax haven wealth help tackle coronavirus?
I’m resting, but others are blogging. This is from Nick Shaxson at the Tax Justice Network, with permission: Could the wealth in tax havens help
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Coronavirus QE from the Bank of England has to have conditions attached for the sake of us all
The Bank of England has now announced the creation of a coronavirus quantitative easing programme. In broad terms I welcome this, but I am concerned
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The OECD needs to embrace radical reform to its country-by-country reporting standard
The OECD published the 79 comments it received on its consultation on the future of its version of country-by-country reporting yesterday. I should make a confession
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They have very long memories and no sense of contrition in the Isle of Man
They have long memories on the Isle of Man. As the Isle of Man Today website (which is the main news outlet for the island)
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