Why intangibles should, very largely, be ignored in international tax
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013Intangible assets are a major problem in international taxation. They are the basis of much of the base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) that is
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Taxing multinationals: Lords sets out the case for unitary taxation and then dismisses it in favour of Devereux's unworkable scheme
Friday, August 2nd, 2013As Andrew Goodall, a long time supporter of tax justice has noted on his blog: Taxing multinationals: Lords committee sets out the case for unitary
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The House of Lords recommend some deeply regressive corporate tax reforms
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013The House of Lords’ Economic Affairs Committee has reported on Corporation Tax this morning following a review to which I presented evidence. As they note
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The CBI want change to the tax system but not whilst they can still extract unfair benefit from the existing system
Monday, July 15th, 2013The OECD will be publishing its report to the G20 finance ministers ion how to tackle tax avoidance this week. There will be more of that anon,
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Companies do pay tax
Saturday, June 22nd, 2013The argument that companies do not pay taxes appears to be coming up, yet agin, on this blog. It is, of course, an argument beloved
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Why we need corporation tax
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013One of the questions posed by the House of Lords yesterday was: Is there a good rationale for the existing system of taxing corporate profits?
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My House of Lords evidence for this afternoon's hearing
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013The evidence I, the TUC and Tax Justice Network submitted to the House of Lards for this afternoon’s hearing on corporation tax, which I am speaking at, is available here.
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If the Labour Policy Review meeting on tax is an indication of where it's going then everyone concerned for tax justice needs to condemn it now
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013UPDATE: 11.35 am I have just been asked to speak at this meeting. —————— Labour is planning a ‘One Nation’ tax event. I get sent
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Why might Martin Sorrell think that paying corporation tax is a a question of judgement?
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013The BBC has reported: Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of global advertising group WPP, has said the amount of corporation tax companies pay is largely
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