Oxford's tax gap deniers
Friday, September 25th, 2015There’s a letter in today’s Guardian from Prof Mike Devereux of the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation. In it he claims that: Zoe Williams (G2, 23
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The truth is out: companies set UK tax policy and they're doing all they can to keep it that way
Monday, June 29th, 2015Simon Bowers of the Guardian missed a great tax conference on Friday, staged by the Tax Justice Network. He went to the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation
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HMRC threatened with legal action over HSBC tax ‘loopholes’
Friday, May 1st, 2015The online campaigning organisation Avaaz issued this press release over night: HMRC threatened with legal action over HSBC tax ‘loopholes’ *Avaaz calls for judicial review
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You can't have an effective income tax without having a corporation tax too
Monday, November 24th, 2014I posted Alex Cobham’s review of Gabriel Zucamn’s paper on corporate tax reform last week. I re-read that paper this weekend and noticed this comment:
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Why a national insurance fund is no answer for Labour
Friday, June 20th, 2014Amongst the recommendations made by IPPR in its report published yesterday , on which I have already commented, and which has apparently been embraced by Labour
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Why I wrote last night's tweets on neoliberals and taxation
Monday, March 3rd, 2014I wrote a series of tweets last night on the break down of the old tax consensus that was the foundation of much of post
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The demand that corporation tax be scrapped is all about redistributing wealth upwards
Friday, January 10th, 2014It has genuinely been fascinating to spend the last two days discussing international tax and it’s relationship to the funding of developing countries over the
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Tax relationships that no longer hold true
Tuesday, December 17th, 2013I recently noted Duncan Weldon’s assessment of a new economic paradigm and economic relationships that no longer hold true. I have a strong suspicion that
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Thames Water need to deliver a lot more clarity in their tax accounting
Monday, December 2nd, 2013I was quoted in a Daily Mail story over the weekend on Thames Water. As the Mail noted: Thames Water sparked fury yesterday when it announced
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