It would be an understatement to say that many large corporations have found their reputations dragged through the mud over their tax affairs. Google’s laudable pledge of “don’t be evil” backfired when British parliamentarians led by the combative Margaret Hodge decided that the company’s tax arrangements came across as just a little bit too evil […]
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Eleven EU member states are pushing ahead with a plan to introduce a tiny tax on financial transactions. Four of Europe’s five largest economies are among them. Guess which one is missing? The UK House of Lords EU Subcommittee on Economic and Financial Affairs this week came out railing against the financial transaction tax (FTT),
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The Tax Justice Network has released a report slamming Britain as the worst offender when it comes to financial secrecy thanks to its network of tax haven crown dependencies and overseas territories. I was back on RT News today responding to their report and calling on Britain to get its house in order.
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At 11.39pm, April 14 1912, a man called Robert Hitchins made the mistake of turning right instead of left. The RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, taking with it a captain who had blithely ignored all warnings of danger and plowed on full steam ahead with the arrogance of an Empire which was soon
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Today, Lindsay Sandiford, a grandmother from Cheltenham, was sentenced to death in Indonesia for smuggling $2.6 million worth of cocaine. “It is well known that Indonesia takes a very intolerant approach to drugs trafficking and the death penalty for breaking such law is not an extraordinary sentence in this respect,” Freya Zaiwalla of Zaiwalla & Co
David Cameron is taking his sabre to the Netherlands tomorrow, rattling it like a toy rattles when it’s thrown from a pram. On the agenda: Britain’s future in Europe. There will be the predictable xenophobic, nationalistic froth from the right calling for the UK to leave the European Union. Almost as dangerous, there will be
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My editorial from the latest issue of International Tax Review Contrary to the tin-hat theories on Mayan prophecy, 2012 is over and the world has not ended. But the year brought great change for multinationals and how they conduct their corporate tax affairs. Tax avoidance has dogged companies in the mainstream press like never before.
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