I normally ignore Tim Worstall. So does almost everyone on the left, and for good reason: he’s a troll cheerleader saying little of worth, offering
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Andrew Goodall is a pretty seasoned tax journalist. He works for the Tax Journal. Like all good journalists he is not satisfied with first impressions, glib responses and being
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In May’s Taxcast: Tax haven insiders speak out, the co-founder of Facebook ‘unfriends’ the US, and Europe considers a Financial Transaction Tax.  

The UK is in recession. The IMF has told it to prepare a Plan B because the balance of risk is that things will get worse. Nick
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I’m in Copenhagen today. I was talking about tax evasion and information capture yesterday; today I chaired a session on shadow banking at Copenhagen Business
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I have only had time to scan the New Taxpayer’s Alliance report on tax in the 21 Century, and will be in a conference all
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The Taxpayer’s Alliance and IoD’s new report on tax is amazing in many ways – mostly for the obvious abuses it wants to promote in
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I’ve just re-published HMRC’s new commentary on my work on the Tax Gap, published by the Treasury Select Committee. I suspect no one will be surprised to hear that I
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I try to make sure I make appropriate disclosure of my conflicts of interest. So I should make disclosure of the fact I’ve joined the Co-operative movement. It’s long
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