Oxfam has issued a new report today that suggests: People using tax havens are depriving the world of more than $150 billion (£100bn) in lost
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Taxing the rich – Australian style
We are light years away from the days of Cadbury capitalism
Prof Prem Sikka of Essex University wrote the following article with the above title for The Conversation. I reproduce it her with his permission: The tax debate offers insight into
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Why we need corporation tax
One of the questions posed by the House of Lords yesterday was: Is there a good rationale for the existing system of taxing corporate profits?
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Apple wants a tax cut as its reward for tax abuse
As the Guardian notes: Apple has called for US corporate tax rates to be slashed after it admitted sheltering at least $30bn (£20bn) of international profits
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The Tax Justice Network has been voted the leading force in global transfer pricing policy
This is something I did not expect, from Transfer Pricing Weekly: The Big 4 railed against TJN’s approach to transfer pricing in the Lords this afternoon, but
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Ireland is a doormat state when it comes to tax: a place where companies wipe the dirt from their feet and move their money on
Ireland is claiming today that it is not reposnible for Apple paying low rates of tax. Quite emphatically that is not true. Ireland is completely
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A Bill Dodwell gem
Bill Dodwell appered before the Lords before I did this afternoon. Amongst the comments he made was something like (I did not note absolutely verbatim)
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My House of Lords evidence for this afternoon’s hearing
The evidence I, the TUC and Tax Justice Network submitted to the House of Lards for this afternoon’s hearing on corporation tax, which I am speaking at, is available here.
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