Brazil, Germany, Spain and South Africa sign motion for fairer tax system to deliver £250bn a year extra to fight poverty and climate crisis ‘Why we need a global tax on billionaires ’ The...
The public supports it, and even the rich are calling for it. We must prevent a deeper slide into global inequality Abigail Disney is a member of Patriotic Millionaires The need to tax rich peo...
Prospect of party closing Tory ‘loopholes’ if elected prompts some wealthy individuals to explore a move overseas “People are jumping on planes right now and leaving,” said Nimesh Shah,...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/13/uk-non-doms-uk-labour-tax-plans
Among the party’s experts on tax avoidance is a former City lawyer who wrote that ‘taxation is legalised extortion’ In February 2016, the Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge went on the warpath...
Group will advise on how to modernise HMRC after shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves reveals plan for £5bn crackdown Labour has appointed an expert panel to advise the party on ways to tackle tax ...
By cracking down on tax avoiders and closing non-dom loopholes, Rachel Reeves will help revive UK public services Margaret Hodge is the Labour MP for Barking This week the shadow chancellor, Ra...
All agree that billions are missing from HMRC coffers but Rachel Reeves may not be looking for it in the right places Each year His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs know how much tax they would ...
Shadow chancellor says Labour would ‘ramp up’ number of HMRC staff to close gap between what is owed and paid UK politics – latest updates The shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has said ...
Funding needed after Tories adopted Labour policy to pay for tax cuts will be used for school breakfast clubs and NHS Rachel Reeves has said an incoming Labour government would launch a £5bn c...
Leaders gather in Brazil to explore solutions to hypermobile super-rich avoiding tax The G20 group of the world’s most powerful countries is exploring plans for a global minimum tax on the wo...
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/feb/29/taxation-worlds-billionaires-super-rich-g20-brazil
Among lowest taxpayers were companies whose CEOs have become high-profile advocates for corporate social responsibility Some of the US’s most profitable corporations, including General Motors...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/29/trump-tax-cuts-us-companies
The online giant’s vast storage unit on the M1 is a logistical miracle – it’s a pity the lax-on-tax PM has spoiled the view Sitting in slow-moving traffic on the M1 the other day, I found...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/25/if-you-hate-amazon-blame-rishi-sunak
The drop in civil inquiries by fraud unit sparks criticism that the authority’s use of its powers of enforcement are waning The number of civil investigation cases opened by a HM Revenue and ...
If HMRC doesn’t prosecute under the The Criminal Finances Act then big corporations won’t bother to comply with it I spent most of 2017 making sure some of the largest banks and corporation...
Powers bestowed by the Criminal Finances Act 2017 are not being used effectively, say critics HMRC has not charged a single company under landmark legislation passed six years ago to crack down...
When even some of the rich are warming to taxes on wealth, why is the Labour party still reluctant to propose them? Caroline Knowles is the author of Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London T...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/17/rich-think-wealth-tax-labour-party
Developing countries are right to want to fight illicit financial flows and combat aggressive tax strategies that rob them of cash they need It has long been a paradox that the rich countries w...
Total of £11.5bn in missing tax from foreign companies is suspected for 2022-23, according to UHY Hacker Young US multinationals underpaid £5.6bn in tax in the UK last year, HM Revenue & Cust...
MPs say plans for corporate public ownership disclosure in Britain’s overseas territories must be revived Britain will remain the global centre of “dirty money” unless ministers revive st...
US, EU and UK expected to reject motion by African countries frustrated at OECD efforts to reform international taxation A long-running campaign for the United Nations to have greater influence...