Vodafone paid no corporation tax in the UK last year. Vodafone claims it paid lost of other taxes here. In fact it says it paid
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Churches say to Prime Minister that he should stop stigmatising the poor based on minsinformation
I think this letter needs no further explanation, but a definite note of thanks for the key line: We ask you, as Prime Minister and
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As wages fall and profits rise inequality grows. Why isn’t more said, demanded and done?
David Cay Johnston has written an other powerful article for the National Memo, in the USA, this week. As he notes: Powerful new data shows just how
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On literalism and interpretation
Yesterday’s blogs gave rise to a lot of comments, especially those on tax avoidance by large companies and a legal decision on the duty of
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Catholic bishops to G8: paying tax is a ‘moral obligation’
As the Guardian has noted this morning: Cardinal Brady, the head of Ireland’s Catholic church, has urged G8leaders to make good on their pledge to tackle
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Out this afternoon – the trailer for The UK Gold
Out this afternoon – on the Guardian website – is the trailer for the new tax avoidance big screen movie The UK Gold. Watch it here. And yes I
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Cutting top rate taxes makes the rich richer. And that’s it
As David Cay Johnston has written in a recent article: A revealing new examination of the top 1 percent in a variety of countries brings into focus how
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Voluntary country-by-country reporting is about as useful as a chocolate screwdriver
Jeffrey Owens, long-running head of tax at the OECD till last year, and Mick Moore, director of the International Centre for Tax and Development at
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HMRC don’t know how many of their staff have joined the companies they taxed
Following Dave Hartnett’s move to Deloitte I made an FoI request. The request and the answer are summarised here: So, we now know people do leave HMRC
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