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tax avoidance Articles

Called to Account

When she was elected chair of the public accounts committee, Margaret Hodge did not expect her work to be especially exciting. And when I began her book about that work, I was not expecting a thrill a minute either. Thankfully, we were both pleasantly surprised. As...
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Time for the handwringing to stop

Five years ago I would have thought a double Irish would have been a potent drink and a Dutch sandwich a nice snack in the Netherlands. My innocence was shattered on the rollercoaster ride as the public accounts committee uncovered a world of corporate tax...
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The 50p question

Maya Goodfellow and Victoria Groulef on whether Labour should retain its 50p tax rate policy [column-group][column] Yes Maya Goodfellow —The 50p tax rate was never meant to be a permanent measure when the Brown government introduced it following the 2008 economic...
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Building a tax system that people can trust

When citizens pay their taxes and hand over their hard-earned cash to the government, they do so on the basis that at some level they have faith in our system of democratic governance – a system in which government is entrusted to make decisions about how to use that...
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