Jeremy Hunt’s time as chancellor has begun with a government u-turn that appears to go against his own instincts, before he has made a single public statement.
The UK government could introduce a domestic minimum tax rate of 15% for multinational companies in an attempt to steer revenues away from low-tax territories towards the Treasury.
Technology giants will benefit from an effective “tax cut” in the UK if a global overhaul of corporation tax goes ahead as expected and replaces the existing digital services tax, according to a...
The changes to global taxation agreed by G7 finance ministers could see the UK’s receipts from digital firms reduce by more than £230m, according to tax experts.
Reforms and increases to the tax base which could raise up to £55bn a year should be implemented as part of the upcoming Budget, according to a leading think tank.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is considering reversing historic corporation tax cuts in the March Budget and longer-term reforms to stamp duty and council tax, according to reports.
The jury is still out on whether OECD talks will succeed in introducing a global digital tax for multinational firms such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon.
The government risks retaliation from the US after confirming it will go ahead with its planned tax on internet giants such as Facebook and Google from April.
Tax havens luring companies engaged in cross-border trade with rock-bottom rates are destroying the century-old global corporate tax system, says an international network.
Benjamin Franklin might have had it right about the only certainties in life but that doesn’t mean the tax system can’t be improved, says CIPFA’s Rob Whiteman.
The UK government must be tougher on multinationals so they pay their “fair share” of tax and contribute to the public services their employees use, Margaret Hodge has told PF.
Tax avoidance is “utterly and totally immoral and wrong” and is “damaging public services”, the chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for responsible tax has told the...
The government should step up its efforts to tackle tax dodging by implementing transparency measures in the upcoming Budget, the head of advocacy at Oxfam told an event on responsible tax.
Attempts to stamp out global tax avoidance are being undermined by countries negotiating low-tax sweetheart deals. How should the system be cleaned up?
The UK should reboot Britain in the wake of Brexit by cutting its corporation tax to zero and adopting Icelandic fishing policies, according to a new report.
Governments share the blame for the estimated $3.1 trillion lost to tax evasion and avoidance globally, two tax experts told the CIPFA annual conference yesterday.
The public finances have become increasingly dependent on taxation raised from London in the last decade, while the share of revenue raised from a host of other cities has fallen, a report has found.