As Reuters note this morning: Chancellor George Osborne will meet lenders and house builders on Tuesday to flesh out how a state-backed scheme to guarantee
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Should developing countries turn their backs on the OECD?
Much of my commentary on the OECD’s BEPS programme has so far concentrated on its impact on the UK and other developed countries. That is
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The July Tax Podcast: listen now
In the Tax Justice Network’s July podcast: We analyse the OECD’s Action Plan it says is going to tackle corporate tax avoidance. And who needs
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Are International Accounting Standards illegal?
The Telegraph has just reported that: The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has ordered an urgent review of the legality of Britain’s accounting rules in a
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Here we go again: boom and bust at the expense of the young set to return
As the Guardian notes this morning: House prices in England will soar by 42% by 2020 and rents will rise by even more, according to a
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The Chief Minister of Jersey reads ‘tax research websites’
I have already mentioned one amusing exchange in the States of Jersey last week. There was another that also caught my eye, which was an
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Good times are back again – if you live off investment income
As the FT notes this morning: Investors received a record quarterly payout from UK companies in the three months to June as the gross dividends they paid
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Jersey’s ‘sniff test’ for tax avoidance and the case of a bad cold
I was amused by this exchange in the States of Jersey last week in which it became clear that Jersey uses a ‘sniff test’ when
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The obstacles to country-by-country reporting
Lee Shepherd argues in Tax Analysts today (paywall) with regard to the Base Erosion and Profits Shifting report that: Country-by-country reporting. [Pascal] Saint-Amans explained that the
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