There is a flaw in the Biden tax plan that has to be addressed if it's going to work, and that's in the accounting
Friday, April 16th, 2021The tax justice movement is, unsurprisingly, keen on the Biden tax plan. What Biden is proposing is fairly straightforward. First, he is suggesting that a
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Defending real public country by country reporting in trialogue negotiations: Letter from 79 CSOs and trade unions
Thursday, April 15th, 2021The Corporate Accountability Network, which I direct and which is taking up more and more of my working time, was one of the 79 signatories
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Winning on the corporate tax rate argument is not done yet
Wednesday, April 14th, 2021The FT has noted this morning that: Europe’s low-tax nations have responded positively to the Biden administration’s plans for a radical reform of global corporate
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Where is the UK government on Biden's tax plan? Is Johnson intending to come out as the friend of tax havens?
Monday, April 12th, 2021I wrote about the Biden tax plan last week. I mentioned that it might raise an estimated £13.5bn pa for the UK at the weekend. And
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Why is the UK being so quiet about the Biden tax plan from which it might gain £13.5 billion?
Saturday, April 10th, 2021I share this from Tax Justice UK, of whose advisory board I am a member: New analysis suggests that the UK would raise an extra
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The heavy price of Johnson’s English nationalism
Thursday, April 8th, 2021The world has, at last, noticed that not all is well in Northern Ireland. Loyalist rioting has gone on for six nights now. There is
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Biden's tax plan is about tackling the class warfare of the US elite
Thursday, April 8th, 2021I am being asked by journalists to discuss this: That, of course, is the Biden tax plan, which is radically different from anything we have
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Chris Whitty is asking that we accept Covid deaths like we do those from flu when flu deaths are largely linked to poverty
Friday, April 2nd, 2021I share this Tweet, which is an angry reaction from someone well known to me to Chris Whitty’s suggestion that we should just get on
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The Counterbalance: Small businesses versus the platforms
Tuesday, March 30th, 2021I am sharing this newsletter from the new project called Counterbalance that is being run by my old friend and colleague JohnChristensen with Nick Shaxson
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