Britain must adopt a financial transaction tax
Eleven EU member states are pushing ahead with a plan to introduce a tiny tax on financial transactions. Four of Europe’s five …
Appearance on RT News: Britain’s network of tax havens
The Tax Justice Network has released a report slamming Britain as the worst offender when it comes to financial secrecy thanks to …
Let’s stop subsidising big companies to exploit poor people
Austerity has extracted the last vestiges of “compassion” from conservatism, distilling what remains into policies so poisonously unfair they have led people …
VAT’s enough
My editorial from the April issue of International Tax Review. The annual circus of jibes, justifications and recriminations visited Britain again last …
Appearance on RT News: Bashing the budget
I was on RT News at noon on Wednesday giving my predictions for a predictably dire budget and giving Osborne both barrels. …
Tax avoidance is beginning to hit multinationals’ bottom lines
It used to be that tax avoidance saved businesses money. For decades, the world’s biggest multinational companies have been quietly shifting profits …
A new era dawns for tax reform
My editorial from the March issue of International Tax Review. It has been a busy month for tax reform with the …
Ed Balls should not fall on his sword, Britain needs him
This article was originally written for Left Foot Forward In an open letter to the Shadow Chancellor, historian Anthony Seldon has called …
Rafael Correa’s re-election in Ecuador shows alternative to neoliberalism
Rafael Correa swept to power in 2007 on a ticket of helping the poor. His election in Ecuador spelled a pink tide …
Appearance on LBC Radio: Ken Livingstone & David Mellor interview me on tax avoidance and the mansion tax
I was on Ken Livingstone and David Mellor’s LBC 97.3 show this morning, speaking in support of Ed Miliband’s plan for a …