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“More than 100 of Britain's richest people have been caught hiding billions of pounds in secretive offshore havens, sparking an unprecedented global tax evasion investigation.

Miles Dean comments on recent debate concerning Google’s tax affairs

Mike Lewis, tax justice policy adviser at ActionAid, argues that investors have a central role to play in generating a new approach to tax

Helen Lethaby gives her view on the impact of HMRC’s guidance on the GAAR, and comments on the recent decisions in Fidex and Bristol & West.

Ashley Greenbank and Nigel Doran consider the lessons for the tax litigation process that can be learned from the decided cases.

‘The latest revelation about the UK tax authorities’ excruciating battle with Goldman Sachs shone more unfavourable light on HMRC’s conduct last week.

UK businesses should only engage in “reasonable tax planning that is aligned with commercial and economic activity and does not lead to an abusive result”, the CBI said yesterday in a statement of tax principles designed to “advance the debate on responsible managem

The “fair tax” debate is progressing at such a pace that increased tax transparency in some form is inevitable, but multinationals need to act now to steer the debate towards a “more workable and effective long-term solution” than mandatory country...

A new tax capacity building programme funded by the UK’s Department for International Development will help the Tanzanian and Ethiopian governments to put in place more effective tax administration, the government said today as exchequer secretary David Gauke prepar

The ability of multinational groups to exploit differences between national tax systems to reduce their tax bills without breaching transfer pricing rules is explained in a new HMRC briefing.

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