The Independent has reported today: Britain could slash its £30bn a year corporate tax avoidance industry in one swoop — and raise more money from higher tax
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Tax information exchange agreements don’t work – even the lawyers say so
As Nick Shaxson notes on his Treasure Islands blog: The April edition of the Journal of International Taxation (not available online) has a provocatively titled article
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Looking for Plan B: What Next for Island Hosts of Offshore Finance
The latest edition of The Round Table (theCommonwealth Journal of International Affairs) has a focus on small states and includes a paper by Dr Mark
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Do tax havens contribute to African poverty?
I think you know my answer to that, but I wasn’t asking. Reuters were. As they put it: Tax havens have been blamed (and lauded
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Tax competition is destroying the social contract – and social unrest will follow – Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs is not my favourite economist. There again, he’s far from bottom of the pile, and he’s notched up a fair few places this
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This is why UK Uncut picked on Fortnum’s
There has been much discussion about why UK Uncut picked on Fortnum & Mason’s for action on Saturday. I’ve already said that I think that
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UK Uncut are right in protesting – but it would have been better not to do so on Saturday
I’ve blogged about the enormous success of Saturday’s TUC rally. What about UK Uncut’s actions? As I’ve said many times before, I do not speak
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Worstall misses the point time and again on UK Uncut
I gather the profoundly right wing Institute for Economic Affairs is to publish an article written by the former press office of UKIP, Tim Worstall,
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A lame attempt by the Treasury Select Committee of the House of Commons
The Treasury Committee of the House of Commons has published its report on the principles of tax policy. It;s horribly predictable. But that’s what happens
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