It’s often argued that tax havens cause no harm and just “keep the wheels of trade moving”. That’s not true. As Christian Aid note in a new
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The Google PAC hearing starts at 9.45am Witnesses: Matt Brittin, Vice President, Sale and Operations, Northern and Central Europe, Google, and John Dixon, Head of
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The debate about the next election seems to be focussing on Europe, immigration, debt, deficit, cuts, welfare and the like. They may be important. But
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As I described in my ebook, Over Here and Under Taxed, Amazon, like Google, has played a tax game in the UK. It claims its
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Google are back before the Public Accounts Committee. It’s all the fault of Reuters journalist Tom Bergin who didn’t believe Google’s evidence to the PAC that they
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As the Guardian and many others have noted: Amazon’s main UK subsidiary paid just £3.2m in tax last year, according to accounts filed on Wednesday,
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The UK’s investigative and satirical magazine Private Eye has produced a major new investigation into corporate crime, handled via the United Kingdom. The subtitle of
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Il gattopardo is (I understand) Italian for leopard. It’s important to appreciate this when reading this abstract from the Journal of the Macroeconomic Policy Institute: Thomas I. Palley Gattopardo economics: The crisis and the
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