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Tax Justice Network says the current regime for taxing multinationals is ‘not fit for purpose’

Longer legislation written in plain English can be clearer and easier to use, and the length of the legislation does not generally add to complexity, the Office of Tax Simplification has found.

The BBC’s Today programme broadcast an apology to Sir Philip Green this morning, following Monday’s interview with David Cameron in whi

Clause 2 (basic rate limit for 2012/13) of the Finance Bill was agreed yesterday by the Public Bill Committee.

‘[George Osborne] described “aggressive” tax avoidance as “morally repugnant”. He was right to do so ... ‘[Cameron and Osborne] need to see through the logic of what they have started.

Setting up a company specifically to avoid tax is ‘aggressive tax avoidance’ and should be distinguished from investment in pensions or genuine start-up businesses, the Prime Minister suggested today.

Coverage in the ‘quality’ newspapers of last week’s well-attended launch of the CBI’s tax campaign appears to have been l

The question whether business pays its ‘fair share’ of tax is a perfectly legitimate one that deserves a good answer, John Cridland said at the launch of a CBI campaign to bring ‘an informed voice’ to the UK business tax debate.

The government will not publish anonymised data on the corporation tax paid by FTSE 100 companies, David Gauke said in Commons written answer this week.

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