WPP was one of the companies that ‘left’ the UK in protest at the controlled foreign company rules that were intended to bring their tax
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For those wanting to understand this Thursday’s PAC hearing with Google might I suggest reading ‘Over here and under taxed’? Available here.

Earlier this year Mike Truman, the editor of Taxation magazine, wrote a bad-tempered and ill-judged article in which he claimed Margaret Hodge MP was the
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I have no doubt that many accountants, lawyers, bankers and company directors will dismiss yesterday’s call by the Observer for a moral crusade against tax
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I was sent a document produced by Ernst & Young late last week. No, not the one that revealed their paranoia about country-by-country reporting and
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I have been asked, often, of late why people and companies use tax havens. I could give a long answer, or a short one. This is the
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As the Guardian reports: The UK’s 100 biggest public companies are running more than 8,000 subsidiaries or joint ventures in onshore and offshore tax havens,
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There’s a great deal of truth in this, even if I am not at all sure I agree with many of the writer’s sentiments:  The
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I think I’ve shared it before, but I think it’s worth sharing again. The ad can be skipped after 5 seconds: And yes, it is
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