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When is avoidance not avoidance?

A common "reductio ad absurdum" argument against the current spate of tax avoidance stories goes like this: Tax avoidance is using the tax system to reduce your taxes. ISAs reduce your taxes....

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In which Eoin demonstrates his profound ignorance about partnership taxation

Oh, Eoin... PWC, it may instead (sic) my readers to note, made pre-tax profits of £667 million in 2011 with a turnover of £2.4 billion. In total, PWC paid £11 million of Corporation Tax on those...

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Blowing my own trumpet: myths about corporation tax

I've got a piece on corporation tax myths at CityAM this morning. Here's a little taster: EXECUTIVES from Google and Starbucks were summoned yesterday to give evidence to the UK’s public accounts...

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Tax gap meets European Court of Justice

This is interesting: The British government might have to repay billions of pounds in multinational companies' corporation tax after the EU's highest court found in favour of British American Tobacco...

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HMV: correlation is not causation

Ritchie tells us that tax havens are bad, m'kay... In 2004 HMV complained to the Treasury about the impact of competition on CD and DVD shipments being artificially routed through the Channel Islands...

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When is an amnesty not an amnesty?

When Ritchie gets involved: of course we should encourage people to come forward and pay their tax. But there has also to be justice. So interest has to be paid. And penalties have to be settled. If...

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Margaret Bodge

Hodge really is a national embarrassment: From now on I will be putting away my Kindle and feeding my caffeine addiction somewhere other than Starbucks. We know that Amazon, Google and Starbucks are...

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Here's how to get Starbucks paying tax

In December, UKuncut will mobilise their inconsiderable resources to protest against businesses that they believe - wrongly, as it happens - are paying the wrong amount of tax in the UK. They will...

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Time for Hodge to resign

So, Starbucks, Google and Amazon don't pay the "right" amount of tax because Margaret Hodge says so. Now it appears Hodge wants us to believe that she pays the right amount of tax because Margaret...

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Why do left wing commentators continually lie?

Today it's Owen: In Britain – as across Europe – the crisis has been used to slash taxes on the wealthy while hiking them on everyone else, privatise and decimate services, demolish benefits for the...

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Ritchie shoots himself in the foot

He's laying into Jersey: So is Jersey a self governing democratic country? No way! That's going to make it pretty difficult to solve problems of perceived tax avoidance involving Jersey using...

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Labour isn't working

There's a big problem with Labour's bold new 2015 manifesto crowdsourcing site, Your Britain. Once you've registered and logged in, every time you try to get to the homepage, you get the following:...

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Exploiting African women for political gain

The WHO report that they link to is based on a small number of countries and the rate of violence ranges from 15% in Japan up to 70% in Ethiopia and Peru. They don't present data for the UK at all....

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Eoin is a sorry excuse for a political commentator

Eoin, as you know, has a difficult relationship with facts. So much so that he has had to apologise publicly several times for the lies he has told about prominent figures.  Unfortunately, while he...

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The Labour Party and trust

Ho ho ho. This is what my phone says when I check the SSL certificate at labour.org.uk (OK, OK, so it's Thawte my phone doesn't trust, not Labour. But it made me laugh)

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Steve Baker - nice guy, terrible accounting standard setter

Steve Baker MP is at it again: Accounting seems so dreary but what if broken rules allow banks to show false profits, overstate capital and hide losses? What if the banks have paid bonuses out of...

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Off-topic: bad history of science

Demetrius writes this on Ritchie's blog, in support of the (erroneous) idea that a good hard look at the data is sufficient to disprove Laffer: There was a time when the belief that the sun went round...

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Ritchie and tax fairness

Ritchie has what he considers is a killer argument: Fiona McTaggart MP said in a debate on Google’s tax affairs on Channel 4 on Tuesday that she expected companies to pay their fair share of tax....

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Can't wait for this!

And I confirm I am working on an indicator tool to suggest those who do, or do not, pay their tax, but it's not as simple as many people seem to think. You have to admire the chutzpah of the man....

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Ritchie on Amazon and morality

Ritchie, speaking on the November Tax Justice podcast, says in respect of Amazon and Google: It's up to your conscience whether you use it. Ritchie uses it. Either he's a big fat hypocrite, or it's...

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