I repost this from the Tax Justice Network website, with permission. I should note that not for the first time in life, I agree with
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The January Taxcast
In the January 2019 Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast (available on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and other podcast platforms): Naomi Fowler talks to investor and author Jonathan
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Support for my new EU Tax Gap report
I was pleased to receive support for my new EU tax gap report from the EU Commissioner responsible for taxation yesterday: My translation is: 1/2
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The European Commission is giving up on us
As the FT has reported this morning: Brussels is to sue the UK in Europe’s highest court over tax breaks for commodities traders, according to
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The flickers of hope are being turned off, one by one
I was speaking in Brussels yesterday and referred, in error, to the ‘UK’s member states’. I did, of course, mean to refer to the EU’s
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$825 billion is a lot to lose
The EU tax gap – and what needs to be done now
I have already posted about my new estimate of the EU’s tax gap and noted that the estimate only relates to tax evasion. In my
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The EU tax gap is at least €825 billion a year
I have this morning published a new estimate of the tax gap in the EU. The report that supports this estimate was commissioned by the Socialists and
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Jersey’s illegal Senators and Deputies
A scandal in Jersey has come to my attention. For once this is not about tax. It has instead arisen out of Jersey’s May 2018
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