Google — a company that has depended on state-backed research, innovation and legal protections, and boasted about its ability to dodge national taxes — has reached another deal with a government to pay back some of the […]
Labour MP and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell stated that if Labour wins, they would require companies with greater than £36m in turnover or more than 250 employees to file a complete tax […]
Discussions about corporate tax dodging are picking up pace. The issue is clearly an international one – and according the OECD and EU have both launched initiatives to try to tackle corporate tax avoidance. The […]
Households forced to plug holes left by falling corporate taxation according to the OECD 08/12/15 00:37 According to a press release put out by the OECD to launch its latest Revenue Statistics Report: “Corporate tax […]
AstraZeneca and its partners awarded £93m in grants 13/10/15 09:51 Today’s Guardian features Aditya Chakrabortty’s piece on tax avoidance and mentions my disclosure that AstraZeneca and its partners extracted over £93m in InnovateUK funding between […]
AstraZeneca accused of employing aggressive tax-avoidance measures in an investigation by the Guardian. The company featured in The British Corporate Welfare State. This is an extract: “Five months after AstraZeneca thanked the local MP [George Osborne] for […]
An interesting piece in the Conversation by Prem Sikka on Facebook’s corporation tax: Facebook looks set to pay more UK tax but it might not be as much as you think. Facebook, along with others […]
Facebook and corporation tax 07/03/16 10:04 An interesting piece in the Conversation by Prem Sikka on Facebook’s corporation tax: Facebook looks set to pay more UK tax but it might not be as much as […]
European Commission accuses Luxembourg and the Netherlands of granting state aid through corporate tax deals 27/01/16 13:53 The European Commission has ruled that Luxembourg and the Netherlands have provided “selective tax advantages” for Starbucks and Fiat […]
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