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India accuses BBC of tax evasion amid Modi documentary row
Country’s finance ministry claims broadcaster has not fully declared its income and profits India’s finance ministry has accused the BBC of tax evasion, saying that it had not fully declare...
Look at how the 1% are doing right now, and tell me the system isn’t rigged | Nesrine Malik
The world’s super-rich have amassed so much wealth since the pandemic that even a Tory minister can see something is amiss You may have forgotten by now, but there was a brief moment during t...
Tax dodging and non-compliance during pandemic cost UK £9bn – NAO
HMRC moved 1,350 compliance staff due to Covid, National Audit Office says, and losses are expected to grow Tax dodging and non-compliance during the pandemic cost the government £9bn, Whiteha...
Global corporations ‘cheating public out of billions in tax’, say campaigners
Tax Justice Network says countries lose $89bn a year by allowing anonymity over use of tax havens Governments around the world could reap almost $90bn a year extra in tax if they made public th...
Revealed: world’s biggest meat firm appears to have avoided millions in UK tax
Exclusive: major supplier to brands including KFC and Nando’s used offshore companies allowing them to reduce UK tax payments, investigation suggests The global megacompanies supplying some o...
London council could seize oligarchs’ homes for affordable housing
EXCLUSIVE: Westminster looking at compulsory purchase orders to tackle laundering of ‘dirty money’ Homes acquired with “dirty money” in the richest parts of London could be seized and t...
Amazon could avoid UK tax for two more years thanks to Rishi Sunak’s tax break
Firm increased business expenses in 2021 after former chancellor introduced 130% ‘super-deduction’ relief scheme Amazon could be off the hook for tax in the UK for at least two more years a...
Number of UK non-doms down by 11% after pandemic travel curbs
HMRC says drop for 2020-21 financial year coincided with ‘substantial reduction in international aviation’ The number of super-rich people who live in the UK but pay no tax on their offshor...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/28/number-uk-non-doms-down-pandemic-travel-curbs
Star executive quit Uber as it faced pressure over UK tax structure
Questions raised for George Osborne – named as ‘strong advocate’ for firm – after revelations about avoidance strategy Osborne and Hancock did not declare secret Uber meetings ‘We need...
Labour demands Tory leadership hopefuls disclose non-dom pasts
Anneliese Dodds asks for clarity on which contenders have held tax status after Zahawi revelations The Labour chair, Anneliese Dodds, has written to her Conservative counterpart to seek assuran...
HMRC criticised over £32bn ‘tax gap’ estimate
Tax experts say shortfall between expected income and actual receipts underplays true scale of fraud in 2020-21 financial year HMRC was accused on Thursday of underestimating the tax gap – t...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/23/hmrc-criticised-over-32bn-tax-gap-estimate
Corruption blights the developing world but the US and Europe are accomplices | Kenneth Mohammed
State capture is growing on every continent but only because the west helps to launder and hide money stolen by kleptocrats Last week, John Penrose, Boris Johnson’s anti-corruption tsar, resi...
Plans to relax accounting rules for small UK firms ‘risks rise in economic crime’
Critics say proposals ‘an own goal’ for government in combating money laundering, tax evasion and fraud The government has been accused of watering down efforts to combat economic crime aft...
UK’s defences against ‘dirty money’ overrun, say MPs
UK now ‘jurisdiction of choice for dirty money’, cross-party group says as it launches economic crime manifesto The UK has become “the jurisdiction of choice for dirty money”, harming i...
Revealed: Barclays avoids almost £2bn in tax via Luxembourg scheme
Exclusive: Arrangement has allowed bank to earn billions of pounds nearly tax-free for over 12 years Barclays has avoided nearly £2bn in tax via a lucrative arrangement in Luxembourg that allo...
Sunak’s worldview is more hedge fund manager than tech bro
Analysis: Unlike his predecessors, he has not criticised tax havens or pledged to go after tax avoiders Since becoming chancellor, Rishi Sunak has not delivered any of the tub-thumping speeches...
Labour accuses Sunak family of avoiding tens of millions in taxes
Chancellor obfuscated while imposing steep tax rises on ordinary Britons, says shadow minister Rishi Sunak and his family potentially avoided paying tens of millions of pounds in taxes through ...
Russia can only afford its war in Ukraine because Britain helped raise the cash | Oliver Bullough
To undermine Putin in the long term, government ministers have to get serious about closing tax breaks and loopholes Boris Johnson is congratulating himself on doing so much to help Ukraine, bu...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/08/britain-war-in-ukraine-britain-putin-regime
The Guardian view on non-dom tax status: them not us | Editorial
The chancellor’s wife may have breached no law, but her deliberate choice sends a socially divisive message It is not the legality of what the chancellor of the exchequer and his wife do with...
Non-doms: 12% of residents in London’s richest parts claimed status in 2018
More than one in 10 paid no tax on offshore income in Kensington and the Cities of London and Westminster More than one in 10 residents of some of London’s wealthiest neighbourhoods have clai...