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....
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleBlowing 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...
View ArticleTax 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...
View ArticleHMV: 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...
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleMargaret 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...
View ArticleHere'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...
View ArticleTime 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleRitchie 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...
View ArticleLabour 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:...
View ArticleExploiting 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....
View ArticleEoin 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...
View ArticleThe 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)
View ArticleSteve 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...
View ArticleOff-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...
View ArticleRitchie 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....
View ArticleCan'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....
View ArticleRitchie 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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