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The Untaxables
13 January 2013 Outside the city hall in downtown Olympia, a crowd had gathered to vent its anger. The capital of Washington, the northwest American state which is home to…
IT companies accused of underpaying tax by £800m
13 January 2013 IBM, Microsoft and other companies with lucrative government contracts pay little or no corporation tax, a Conservative MP said yesterday. Charlie Elphicke, MP for Dover and…
This £20m cheque is an historic turning point
13 January 2013 We need to open up the tax affairs of the FTSE 100 and pursue avoiders more rapidly As a result of what we have discovered about the…
Time called on permissive tax society
13 January 2013 A reluctance to lay down the law created a lost generation of revenue. But the times they are a-changin’, says Edward Fennell Outrage over the Savile and…
Irish outlook
13 January 2013 I n six months’ time the collection of the new property tax commences in earnest. It will be a remarkable development. Every dwelling in the country including…
Beware the taxman’s swoop
13 January 2013 Households are facing the sixth austerity budget since the economy collapsed in 2008, with the government planning to announce €3.5 billion of tax hikes and spending cuts…
Warning on tax exiles
13 January 2013 TAX advisers to Ireland’s wealthiest people have warned the government that stricter laws on tax exiles would drive celebrities and rich business executives out of the country.…
HMRC consultants pay only 3.5% tax
13 January 2013 ONE of the world’s biggest consultancy firms, which also works for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), has avoided paying tens of millions of pounds in corporation tax.…
Darragh Kilbride: Tax incentives would boost SMEs
13 January 2013 THERE is ample evidence that tax policy shapes behaviour. When taxes rise, consumer spending falls. When there are tax incentives to invest in business, taxpayers choose to…
Taxman pursues Google as Osborne cracks down
13 January 2013 Google is facing the prospect of a multimillion-pound tax bill after HM Revenue & Customs opened a review into the internet company’s tax returns for the past…
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