Check out this TUC report on the 90% decline of UK shareholding by UK Pension funds. Our UK companies are now largely owned by tax avoiders (or worse)
“UK workers’ pension funds get little from FTSE100 share dividends and buy-backsNew report recommends…Read more…
‘Prime’ time to take on Amazon
Online retail giant Amazon has been handed millions in government contracts over the years – including £23m since the pandemic started – but shamelessly presses on with an extractive and exploitative…Read more…
Trouble in Paradise?
An explosive data leak – one of the largest of its kind, containing more than 13m documents – showed the extent of tax avoidance among the world’s elite, including powerful and influential people in…Read more…
Online tax cheats
Online retail giants such as Amazon and eBay are turning a blind eye to massive tax fraud happening under their watch – to the tune of more than £1bn a year. Foreign retailers selling their…Read more…
Invest in HMRC call
Britain’s richest people seem to be getting preferential treatment from the taxman and are not being properly pursued for their outstanding tax bills, according to parliament’s spending watchdog….Read more…
‘Nothing short of robbery’
Dodgy recruitment agencies are cheating the taxpayer out of “hundreds of millions” of pounds, a Guardian investigation has found. Temp agencies have raked in cash through “contrived” financial…Read more…
Taking a bite out of Apple
The European Commission (EC) has taken a bite out of Apple by ordering it to pay the Irish government up to €13bn (£11bn) in back taxes, after ruling the tech company’s tax arrangements with the…Read more…
Tax cheat curb plans are useless
New plans to hit firms that sell tax avoidance schemes with heavy fines are useless – because the Tories have stripped HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) of its resources for catching cheats, leading…Read more…
‘All in this together’?
Questions remain over the tax affairs of the Prime Minister and Chancellor despite the publication of their tax returns, Labour MPs said yesterday (April 11) during explosive scenes in Parliament….Read more…
Nothing to hide?
After three days of evasion David Cameron has been forced to admit that he benefited from a tax-free offshore trust his father set up. The revelation, coming after days of partial responses to…Read more…
‘Sweetheart’ deal
Multinational tech giant Google cut a £130m back tax deal with HMRC last week on profits amounting to more than £6bn over the last decade, a settlement that has outraged the public, tax campaigners…Read more…
Close the net on tax avoidance
Unite highlighted today (December 7) that the case for chancellor George Osborne “closing the net on corporate tax avoidance” is further reinforced with reports that Cadbury’s owner, Mondelez…Read more…
Theft on a global scale
Corporate tax dodging was front and centre in the most recent election campaign, with leaders on both sides of the political spectrum pledging to take action against tax dodgers. Many of us…Read more…
‘Totemic’ tax move
As the general election nears, campaign promises are a dime a dozen. Elections are usually a flurry of predictably vague pledges, with politicians revealing just enough of one policy or another but conveniently omitting the fine print. This time round, however, is decidedly different. Labour has hit out with bold, clear policies, and their […]
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100 business cheats: Labour threatens our cosy fat cat life
“Today big Tory Business lines up to attack ED Miliband and Labour by sending a letter to a right wing paper saying it would be a disaster if Labour are elected…. Look carefully at these companies and individuals.
They comprise of Corporate Tax Dod…Read more…