Much of what I am noting in this blog comes from a recent submission that John Christensen and Nick Shaxson of the Tax Justice Network have
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Freeports are tax havens whatever the government might say about them
This post by me was also on Left Foot Forward this morning: Boris Johnson is proposing that the UK should, post-Brexit, have at least ten
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How tax havens distort the world
The Office for National Statistics published new data on inward foreign direct investment into the UK this week. This is where they show the money
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The times, they are a-changin’ for minimum corporation tax rates
The FT has just reported that: As expected, the G7 also agreed [today] on the principle of a global minimum corporate tax rate to ensure
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Getting the offshore blame right
The FT has reported that Lloyds Bank has been forced to freeze 8,000 accounts held with it in Jersey because the owners of those accounts
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The Crown Dependencies cave in on public registers of beneficial ownership in another victory for tax justice
The UK’s three Crown Dependencies – Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man – have just issued press releases on a joint decision, announced today.
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The UK tax gap is £90 billion a year
I gather HMRC will be publishing their latest tax gap figures this week. The last are here. I can make a fairly confident prediction. The
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It’s time to tax corporations where employees work, not where ledgers hide
This was published by the Tax Justice Network yesterday, and I share it as I think it important. Their research was funded by the EU
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Is Ireland a tax haven?
I just got this email alert from Google on tax havens: Is Ireland a tax haven? Why not ask if the Pope’s a Catholic? Of
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