Congratulations to ActionAid on the launch of its new Tax Power campaign – an impressively internationalised version of the work ActionAid UK has been doing for five years now. I love the gallery of #taxpaysfor photos. As part of the campaign launch, ActionAid asked me to help them come up with an estimate for the… Continue reading Tax incentives cost $138 billion…?
Category: Corporation tax
Clamping down on Google’s tax avoidance: don’t hold your breath
This is a post I wrote for the LSE Policy & Politics blog. Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt will stand up to give a talk at the LSE this evening after a week of unprecedented criticism of the search giant. I wonder if he still feels the same way today as he did last October,… Continue reading Clamping down on Google’s tax avoidance: don’t hold your breath
Unitary taxation, Barclays and Africa
I just read the Tax Justice Network briefing which is explained in Richard Murphy’s blog title “Barclays and HSBC make the case for unitary tax in the UK – because we’d have collected £2.6 billion more in 4 years.” Now I haven’t checked out the UK figures at all, but the inclusion of Barclays piqued… Continue reading Unitary taxation, Barclays and Africa
Companies are behaving in precisely the way that our international tax system incentivises them to behave
This is my post published on the LSE Politics and Policy blog last week, written before the corporation tax announcement in the budget. It went down a storm with the UK Independence Party’s Financial Services spokesman: @eurocrat @martinhearson @LSEpoliticsblog Half hearted assertions backed by no evidence. As usual academia with no business acumen — Steven… Continue reading Companies are behaving in precisely the way that our international tax system incentivises them to behave
Tax in the post 2015 development settlement: opportunities and challenges
This is the short paper I wrote for UNDP based on my presentation last week. Tax is already the biggest source of public finance in developing countries. African governments, for example, raise over ten times more revenue through taxation than through aid. Even if only the “low hanging fruit” are addressed, the result is likely to… Continue reading Tax in the post 2015 development settlement: opportunities and challenges
A campaigners’ code of conduct and the ABF story
I see Ben Saunders has taken up the ABF story with two really interesting posts, the first relating it to Bill Dodwell’s call for a campaigners’ code of conduct, and second to what on earth Zambia was doing signing its bonkers treaty with Ireland. As I’m writing this in a break from struggling to put… Continue reading A campaigners’ code of conduct and the ABF story
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