The National newspaper in Scotland has been running what I think to be a very important series on the threats posed by freeports during the
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Tax havens exist to undermine democracy. They are a fundamental threat to our way of life.
Not long after I first began to work on tax haven reform more than twenty years ago I realised that the problem that these places
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Prem Sikka reminds David Cameron of his commitments on country-by-country reporting
This exchange took place in the House of Lords yesterday: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con) One of the best things we can do for
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Why won’t UK politicians address the biggest part of tax evasion in the UK, which is caused by the absue of limited liability companies due to poor state regulation?
As the Guardian notes this morning: Anyone selling used clothes on Vinted, renting out their home on Airbnb, or getting rid of old camera equipment on
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HMRC now know how much international tax they’re not being paid
The Guardian reports this morning that: US multinationals underpaid £5.6bn in tax in the UK last year, HM Revenue & Customs believes, according to a
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Taxing Wealth Report 2024: Abolishing the domicile rule for tax purposes might raise £3.2 billion of tax revenue a year
I have this morning published the latest in my series of proposals that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this latest note, I consider
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The problem of taxing wealth will have to be tackled locally, not globally
The EU Tax Observatory has a new report on tax evasion out this morning. Or, to be precise, they have a new report on tax
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Ecclestone has been caught: now we need to use the methods that caught him within the UK domestic economy
As almost all of the media report, former Formula 1 impresario Bernie Ecclestone pleaded guilty to tax fraud yesterday. He won’t go to prison: the
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Automatic information exchange works
Over many years, I argued for automatic information exchange of data from tax havens to authorities like HM Revenue & Customs. This means that the
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