Over the last two decades I have spent quite a lot of time tackling the issue of corruption. Tackling tax evasion has always been a
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I was amused to receive this email from Amazon: Other suppliers are, of course, available, but it’s not a bad selection of weekend reading.

I spend a lot of time criticising the management of HM Revenue & Customs, and for good reason, in my opinion. So, I should give
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I wrote this more than ten years ago (with minor changes to tenses to suit the new context): Feral capitalism is the unfettered, wild form
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I campaigned for automatic information exchange from tax havens for a long time. Perhaps my most important paper on the issue was published in 2009.
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I addressed a meeting of the European Parliament sub-committee on Tax Matters today, addressing the issue of how Russian oligarchs abuse tax systems to avoid
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As Accountancy Age has reported: A 49% uptick in the amount of extra tax collected from investigations into large corporates shifting profits overseas is an
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The FT has noted that: The acting premier of the British Virgin Islands, Natalio Wheatley, has rejected as “unacceptable” the reimposition of direct rule from
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The Guardian reports this morning that: The premier of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has been arrested in a sting operation in Miami on charges of
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