Transparent company ownership: how does the UK government’s proposed action live up to its rhetoric?
Wednesday, July 16th, 2014This has been reposted from the Global Witness blog, with permission and is the work of Robert Palmer and Rosie Sharpe: “For too long a
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Jersey gives up just a few of its secrets
Wednesday, July 9th, 2014As the Guardian has noted this morning: It reads like a Who’s Who of Britain’s most prominent political donors; the wealthy elite who have donated
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Time for a passport tax?
Monday, July 7th, 2014I first write this blog in 2010, but I think it’s time to bring it out again in the the light of all that has happened
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The ethics of tax compliance
Friday, July 4th, 2014When I began working on tax there were only two available descriptions of tax behaviour. They were tax avoidance and tax evasion. There was no
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The country-by-country reporting debate continues
Thursday, July 3rd, 2014The debate on country-by-country reporting rolls on in the comments section of this blog fuelled, at least in part, by my calculation of potential profit
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NGOs protest at PWC being hired by EU to assess country-by-country reporting
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014The following press release was issued by Eurodad – an NGO coordinating action by other development NGOs – this morning: After strongly opposing any publication
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Barclays and country-by-country reporting: what we learned
Tuesday, July 1st, 2014I wrote yesterday about Barclays’ country-by-country report and what could be gleaned from it. The Guardian referred to that work in this morning’s paper. Barclays did
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Barclays: the bank that just loves Luxembourg and Jersey, but not the UK
Monday, June 30th, 2014Barclays has put out its first country-by-country reporting. This is not a statutory report: it has been published in anticipation of the requirement that banks produce
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There is no chance of tax peace
Monday, June 16th, 2014I referred on Saturday to a blog by tax barrister Jolyn Maugham in which he suggested that what he saw as the two sides of
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