Last year more than 200,000 people were prosecuted for not having a TV licence. More than fifty – many of them women – went to
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HMRC has issued a press release as a result of this morning’s revelations on HSBC. As an exercise in missing the point it’s a classic. They
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This statement was published in March 2012 by HMRC is support of the appalling UK – Switzerland tax treaty negotiated by the current government under the
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The Guardian / BBC story of alleged tax evasion at HSBC between 2005 and 2007 covers old ground for some of us who have been around
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The extraordinary response from the UK’s tax havens to Ed Miliband’s demand that they create public registries of the ownership of the companies that are
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Ed Miliband’s announcement on tax havens, made last night is significant for a number of reasons. Firstly, it’s significant because after a week of criticism
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The following statement has been issued by Labour tonight and as I welcome the announcement in support of the full disclosure of beneficial ownership in
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The OECD’s regulations on the use of country-by-country reporting, published today, are nigh on absurd. They say: Countries participating in the OECD/G20 BEPS Project agree to
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The OEC made some pretty good recommendations on country-by-country reporting last September, albeit only for taxation purposes. Today it has made its recommendations on how country-by-country reporting
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