The House of Lords economic affairs committee inquiry into taxing corporations in a global economy will hear evidence tomorrow from tax directors at GSK, BP and Reed Elsevier, as well as heads of tax at some of the major professional bodies.
The G8 should establish the architecture for a multilateral regime that “tackles unethical tax avoidance” and closes down tax evasion, the Africa Progress Panel recommended on Friday.
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
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.