I talked about Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs on Owen Jones’ YouTube programme yesterday. The discussion covers the first 22 minutes of the programme:
Freeports only exist to promote the ideas of far-right politicians who hate the idea of regulation and tax. Why are we tolerating them?
As I noted in my column in The National yesterday: My argument was this: [Freeports] exist to promote the ideas of far-right politicians who hate
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Port Greenwash
I recorded this podcast with Craig Dalzell of the CoomonWeal think tank in Scotland yesterday: As they said of it: This week Craig talks to
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Fraud is implicit within neoliberalism’s rotten culture
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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Weekend reading
Tackling tax abuse by the wealthy matters
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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Tax havens are in effect the aircraft carriers from which assaults on major democratic states and their policies can be launched. No wonder Russia loves them.
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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HM Revenue & Customs really do not want to collect tax from the wealthy
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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How to beat tax cheating oligarchs
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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