Prem Sikka has been arguing in favour of unitary taxation in the Guardian. He's right to do so, but it is only fair to say
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Swiss bankers suddenly favour automatic information exchange
Tax-news.com reported this morning that: President of the Swiss Private Bankers Association (SPBA) Nicolas Pictet has urged the Federal Council to abandon its “white money”
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Keynes was right. The Treasury was, and is, wrong. Everything else is a footnote to that
From Martin Wolf this morning: The UK Treasury considers John Maynard Keynes to be an idiot. He famously said that “the boom, not the slump, is the
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Mythbusters: “There’s nothing we can do about tax havensâ€
The full version of this mythbuster, which I have co-written with Dan Hind on tax havens and what we can do about them is now
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From January 2003 to May 2013 – progress with country-by-country reporting
In January 2003 I published a report with this cover, which was made available here: I thought that this proposal would be read by Prof Prem
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The rush to country-by-country reporting is on
Bloomberg reported yesterday that: The European Union will seek to make large companies disclose the taxes they pay and profits they make on a country-by-country basis as
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The May 2013 taxcast from the Tax Justice Network
In the May 2013 Taxcast: Google and Apple are forced to defend their tax affairs in public, how anti-EU sentiment serves offshore interests and the
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Is EU wide country-by-country reporting really on its way?
I sat and listened to Big 4 accountants saying how dangerous and misleading country-by-country reporting would be this afternoon – although I can’t say where.
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The case of vanishing subsidiaries: the problem country-by-country would tackle
As the Wall Street Journal has reported: WASHINGTON–Some of the biggest U.S. companies, including Google Inc. and FedEx Corp., have quietly removed hundreds of offshore
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