As is well known, Amazon has been playing a game in the UK and many European countries in which it claims to have no permanent establishment for
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The extract, from The Week, published this morning, feels horribly true: George Osborne’s sham spending review has achieved one aim – it has split Labour and left the two
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No one has announced it, but the general election campaign in 2015 has begun. It is hidden in debate on the spending review, but since
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The FT has reported this morning that: Cases of serious tax evasion in the UK have hit their lowest level in the past five years
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The FT’s reported this afternoon: Central banks must head for the exit and stop trying to spur a global economic recovery, the organisation representing the
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I’ve just posted a lengthy blog arguing that companies pay tax. For those who don’t agree there is still the short answer as to why
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The argument that companies do not pay taxes appears to be coming up, yet agin, on this blog. It is, of course, an argument beloved
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Taxation magazine has done little to cover itself in glory during recent tax debates, most notably when its editor, Mike Truman, wrote an article branding Margaret Hodge
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Many will know that I worked with Michael Meacher MP last year to table the General Anti-Tax Avoidance Principle Bill that would have beaten tax avoidance
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