The US tax reform that threatens global chaos is an Institute for Fiscal Studies idea
Tuesday, February 14th, 2017The FT is unequivocal this morning. This is a headline: There is good reason for this concern. The proposal for US corporate tax reform is
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Is the UK is proposing to use the worst form of unitary taxation?
Thursday, November 24th, 2016Deep in the Autumn Statement documentation there is the following paragraph: 4.26 Bringing non-resident companies’ UK income into the corporation tax regime — The government
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How do we build public trust in HMRC?
Wednesday, November 9th, 2016The All Party Parliamentary Group on Responsible Tax is holding the following event: How do we build public trust in HMRC? 10am, Wednesday 16th November
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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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Why we must not replace corporation tax with a sales tax
Saturday, January 30th, 2016Lord Lawson has suggested that the UK should replace corporation tax with a sales tax. I am not surprised. Nothing would suit the wealthiest in
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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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There's nothing wrong with a tax that raises no money
Thursday, October 29th, 2015I spent a long time in a discussion of tax yesterday. Now this is not a new experience, but what was interesting was noting the
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