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If only charities and churches could be more reflective about tax

Philip Booth

12 July 2013

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The aspect of the tax avoidance debate which most exercises organisations such as Christian Aid is the issue of the taxation of companies with subsidiaries in poor countries. Christian Aid links tax...

Tax haven hypocrisy

Philip Booth

21 June 2013

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When it comes to the debate on tax avoidance, the coalition seems to struggle in two respects. The first problem is that the government seems unable to articulate the idea that the main...

BBC corporation tax horror story!

Philip Booth

24 May 2013

10 comments

Earlier this week, I appeared on Radio 5 to talk about tax avoidance. The news hook was a speech by Ed Miliband on the supposed problems of Google’s low corporation tax payments. Of course,...

The problem is not that companies pay too little tax, but that they pay too much

Philip Booth

3 December 2012

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Those attacking companies not paying corporation tax have opened up a new line of argument. Specifically, members of the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee have argued that because...

Has The Guardian taken over The Times?

Philip Booth

21 September 2012

26 comments

I was surprised to see The Times run a front page, a three page feature and a leader on tax avoidance yesterday. The arguments used by The Times, and the specific examples highlighted were...

Should the Church evade the issue of tax avoidance?

Philip Booth

10 July 2012

7 comments

It is perhaps surprising that senior people in the Catholic Church have been relatively quiet in the recent debate about tax avoidance. But, keeping quiet is probably a good strategy. After all,...

Jimmy Carr and tax

Len Shackleton

21 June 2012

5 comments

I admit that I’ve never been a fan of Jimmy Carr and am surprised to learn just how much he has apparently been earning for his rather predictable anti-establishment comedy. But if...

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