The TJN annual research conference 5 & 6 July 2012 - you're welcome!
Friday, April 27th, 2012ASSOCIATION FOR ACCOUNTANCY & BUSINESS AFFAIRS, TAX JUSTICE NETWORK UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX, 5th-6th JULY 2012 TAX AVOIDANCE, CORRUPTION AND CRISIS Provisional Programme Click here to register Thursday
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CBI tax misinformation - that it condemns secrecy in tax havens
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012John Cridland said in his CBI tax speech on 19 April when referring to the use of tax havens: But with tax sovereignty must go
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John Cridland of the CBI is very confused about tax havens, their secrecy and their use by British multinationals
Thursday, April 19th, 2012John Cridland of the CBI was speaking at David Cameron’s favour think tank this morning – Policy Exchange. According to the notes the CBI issued he
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Guernsey needs to 'urgently reposition its economy'
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012I thought this amusing in the Guernsey Press: GUERNSEY urgently needs to reposition itself as a different type of economy, the retiring Treasury and Resources minister Charles
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Jersey seeks to perpetuate its VAT abuse
Sunday, April 8th, 2012We thought Jersey’s VAT abuse was over, but rumour reaches me some have not accepted their fate. Apparently there is a plan to route Jersey
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Amazon's - adding £35 million to the UK's tax gap
Thursday, April 5th, 2012As the Guardian has noted: Amazon.co.uk, Britain’s biggest online retailer, generated sales of more than £3.3bn in the country last year but paid no corporation
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George Osborne has the temerity to argue in favour of Vodafone's tax abuse in India - and loses
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012Businesstoday in India carried this great report today (which I admit I quote at length): India appears to have stumped Britain as far as retrospective
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Jersey and Guernsey's VAT abuse is really over
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012Even when Jersey and Guernsey lost their judicial review hearing on the UK’s decision to block their deliberately encouraged abuse of the UK’s VAT system
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India and its general anti-avoidance rule
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012I wrote the following article for Taxsutra in India a week or so ago after it was announced India was to have a comprehensive general anti-avoidance rule. It pretty
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