TAX POLICY

The Finance Bill has been carried over to the new session of parliament.

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

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.

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'