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.
No country has the enforcement resources required to perform a thorough audit of every possible transfer pricing issue, the OECD has noted in the introduction to a draft Handbook on Transfer Pricing Risk Assessment, published on 30 April.
The triple dip has been avoided, with growth in the first quarter, and government borrowing is down, though only fractionally. David Smith asks whether things are getting better.
Tax experts frustrated at the lack of knowledge shown by many MPs, and the poor quality of much of the public debate on tax avoidance, have been invited to “adopt an MP”.
HMRC and the Treasury 'should push for an international commitment to improve transparency'
UK Uncut Legal Action will ask the High Court this week to declare that a tax settlement HMRC reached with Goldman Sachs was unlawful.
A leaked document sent by HMRC’s former head of tax Dave Hartnett to the exchequer secretary reveals the scale of the government’s “sweetheart” tax deals, The Guardian reported today, as HMRC pr
There is growing evidence that responsible tax practices make clear business sense as well as moral sense, ActionAid said as it published a guide for investors and businesses seeking a “more socially responsible approach” to corporate tax.