Thirty four NGOs, including Tax Research UK, issued a report last Saturday on the next stages needed to be taken by the G20 to tackle international
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Vodafone’s Verizon tax free deal exploiting a tax relief that should be consigned to history
Vodafone is selling its stake in US mobile network Verizon for about $130 billion according to press reports. That’s more than £80 billion. And the
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Italy starts high frequency trading tax – on deals lasting less than half a second
As the FT reports this morning: Italy will on Monday become the first country to introduce a tax on high-frequency trading in a move that
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If the G20 is to do anything in the next few days it has to deliver on tax
G20 governments will need to find great political courage if they are to curb multinationals’ multi-billion tax dodging, campaigners warn today. Christian Aid, ActionAid International,
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The Tory contempt for campaigning
Tory MP and former minister Nick Herbert has an article in the Guardian this morning that reveals his (and I suspect many in his party’s)
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On the fall out from the Syria vote: it’s time for peacemaking
It would be hard not to comment on the fall out from the Syria vote in the House of Commons last night. Let’s start by
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Jersey’s finance industry has now taken control of its police
I’ve long argued that Jersey is a captured state – indeed, I suggested programme on that theme to an independent television company in 2002, before
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France says Jersey is a tax haven deserving to be penalised for its failure to cooperate in the war on tax abuse
The FT reported last night: France has stepped up its assault on tax havens by blacklisting Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Jersey, in a sudden
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Even the FT is reporting that the UK Transparency of Lobbying Bill won’t work and is blatantly biased
It’s good to see that the FT has picked up the theme of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill being an
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