Today the High Court will hear evidence in the full hearing of the legal case against HMRC over the Goldman Sachs ‘sweetheart’ tax deal. The
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NHS charges for immigrants are a simple way of opening up charging for everyone
Richard Blogger, who has quite a reputation in exposing what has been going on in NHS privatisation, left a comment on this blog yesterday that I thought worth sharing as
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Extending multilateral tax information exchange to the Cayman, the BVI and Bermuda is great news – if it’s more than a hollow gesture
It’s been announced over night that, as expected, the so called G5 tax agreement – between the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain – is
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My second FoI request of HMRC of the day
I mentioned I’d done an FoI request of HMRC earlier today. I’ve now done another: How many people employed by the Large Business Service of HMRC have
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If Reuters and the PAC have found Google has a permanent establishment in the UK then HMRC are for the high jump
The Guardian has reported, following the Reuters report to which I referred this morning, that: Google and its auditor Ernst & Young will be recalled to parliament
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Google – economical with the truth? Surely not?
Many will be familiar by now withe the Google tax story. If you’re not, I’ve written an ebook on it, available here. As I explain there, the
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HMRC, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and its own staff
Following my article in the Guardian yesterday I have made this Freedom of Information request of H M Revenue & Customs this morning: I am not optimistic
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The UK is not an open economy. It’s time academics realised that
The whole model of tax competition is based on the idea that in the modern world all countries – at least, countries up to the size of the UK
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Compare, contrast, and worry
These are two opening paragraphs in FT stories today: It is hard to believe the European Central Bank will not cut interest rates on Thursday.
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