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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ABF’s misleading statements
I try to use this blog to stimulate debate, rather than just pumping out propaganda. I particularly enjoyed the debates that the Starbucks case provoked, with Ben Saunders‘ investigation involving more twists than The Killing. But today I’m quite annoyed, so this is probably a slightly more partisan post than normal. Day 2 of the… Continue reading ABF’s misleading statements
Associated British Foods versus ActionAid: a study in the tax avoidance debate
I was thrilled yesterday to see all the coverage of ActionAid’s report on Associated British Foods’ tax affairs in Zambia. I was involved in the early stages of the research, but a look at the full report shows that the course of the research took them a long way from our initial assumptions of what… Continue reading Associated British Foods versus ActionAid: a study in the tax avoidance debate
Will there be enough food for everyone if we end tax dodging?
I wasn’t going to write about the Enough Food for Everyone If campaign.* But then Zahid Torres-Rahman opened up his big binder of generic blog posts for the Guardian and pulled out one entitled “Business Should Be Part of the Solution in [insert name of campaign here].”
Some fascinating snippets from the IMF’s new paper on fiscal transparency
Today in my inbox is an blog post in which “Two Richards Talk Fiscal Transparency” – the Richards concerned being one current (Richard Allen) and one former (Richard Hughes) head of division in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department.I’ve pulled out two interesting things from the blog post and associated paper [pdf]: the statistics showing how… Continue reading Some fascinating snippets from the IMF’s new paper on fiscal transparency
How UK’s Companies House could be making life harder for tax inspectors in developing countries
I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of days last week in discussion with the head of transfer pricing from a small developing country. One of the obstacles that I hadn’t previously understood was that it is sometimes very hard for tax authorities to prove in court that an offshore company is related to… Continue reading How UK’s Companies House could be making life harder for tax inspectors in developing countries
Martin Hearson 