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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Reforming the administration of corporation tax in the UK might raise at least £6 billion of tax a year
I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will together make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this note, I suggest that
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Microsoft has still not resolved its 2004 tax affairs
I was first involved in writing about Microsoft’s tax affairs in November 2005 when work I did was quoted in the Wall Street Journal (paywall).
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Why doesn’t Google’s new Bard AI service know what a Dutch Sandwich is?
I thought I would try out Google’s new AI tool which was relaunched yesterday. It goes by the name Bard. I asked it an innocent
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Country-by-country reporting to go public in Australia. Will the world now follow in its path?
I wrote the first version of country-by-country reporting for multinational corporations that are public interest entities in 2003. That can be found here. Now Australia
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