Salman Shaheen talks to Richard Murphy, the man who invented country-by-country reporting (CbCR), on why yesterday’s European Parliament vote means he has just achieved his life’s ambition.
The OECD has found itself at odds with both the EU and the Tax Justice Network in the past week over divergent transparency standards. Pascal Saint-Amans, the organisation’s head of tax policy and administration, explains to Salman Shaheen why he believes its blacklist and non-public CbCR standard are the right approach.
With finance ministers meeting in Brussels next week, Robin Hood Tax campaigners are ramping up the pressure. But will the financial transaction tax (FTT) see the light of day?
After the UK Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) released its first ever annual report last week, Salman Shaheen spoke to its new tax director, Paul Morton, about the impact it has made and where it will be going under his leadership.
NGOs are concerned that heavy corporate lobbying could derail the UN’s attempts to crack down on tax avoidance and have written to the new UN secretary-general in an effort to keep up the pressure.
As inflation bites and fraught Brexit negotiations begin under the uncertainty of a hung Parliament, and with a government that has had to scrap many of its pledges to cling to power, Salman Shaheen argues it is time to consider cutting VAT.
