Is the All Party Parliamentary Group on Responsible Tax serious? Or just a KPMG front?
Thursday, February 4th, 2016I have just received the following from Margaret Hodge in her capacity as chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Responsible Taxation: I have
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The Oxford Centre for the Non-Taxation of Business is at it again on corppration tax
Tuesday, December 8th, 2015At about the time I first began writing about Jersey the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation was created. Long known in tax justice circles as the Oxford
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The right wing fundamentalism of the Institute for Fiscal Studies on display again
Tuesday, November 24th, 2015People often wonder why I criticise the Institute for Fiscal Studies for right wing fundamentalism, as I have done on this blog, quite often. The reason
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When will they learn that austerity is causing our deficit?
Friday, November 20th, 2015I would be amused at reaction to the news that George Osborne is going to miss his borrowing targets, yet again, as became obvious this
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Oxford's tax gap deniers
Friday, September 25th, 2015There’s a letter in today’s Guardian from Prof Mike Devereux of the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation. In it he claims that: Zoe Williams (G2, 23
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The truth is out: companies set UK tax policy and they're doing all they can to keep it that way
Monday, June 29th, 2015Simon Bowers of the Guardian missed a great tax conference on Friday, staged by the Tax Justice Network. He went to the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation
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HMRC threatened with legal action over HSBC tax ‘loopholes’
Friday, May 1st, 2015The online campaigning organisation Avaaz issued this press release over night: HMRC threatened with legal action over HSBC tax ‘loopholes’ *Avaaz calls for judicial review
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You can't have an effective income tax without having a corporation tax too
Monday, November 24th, 2014I posted Alex Cobham’s review of Gabriel Zucamn’s paper on corporate tax reform last week. I re-read that paper this weekend and noticed this comment:
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Tax relationships that no longer hold true
Tuesday, December 17th, 2013I recently noted Duncan Weldon’s assessment of a new economic paradigm and economic relationships that no longer hold true. I have a strong suspicion that
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