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Gideon Spanier: At last, Europe is targeting the tech giants on tax

Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter have been sponsoring Tech Central, a marquee promoting the tech and mobile industries, just as they did at Labour’s conference last week.

Italian Finance Minister Sets Out Anti-Tax Evasion Plan

In a presentation to the Italian Cabinet on September 30, 2014, Pietro Carlo Padoan, Italy's Minister for the Economy and Finance, outlined the measures the Government will take to improve tax compliance rates.

HMRC to extract tax debt from wages in “staggering” revision

A spokesperson for HMRC said taxpayers “welcomed” the option to have tax debt collected by instalment, with the changes only being applied to those earning more than £90,000 annually, as it allows them to pay their debts over the tax yea

Dodgy tax numbers in the conference season by Justin Urquhart Stewart

To date I note that we have a Mansion Tax proposal from Labour for the NHS, which seems to have had all the forethought of the similar idea regarding the taxation of the power company profits. The thought may well be made with good intent, but the actions

Possibly Hundreds Of Icelanders Using Tax Shelters

Documents offered to the Directorate of Internal Revenue could prove that hundreds of Icelanders are avoiding paying taxes through the use of shelters.

Miliband should be ambitious and go for a Robin Hood tax

As everyone from the Institute for Fiscal Studies to the International Monetary Fund agrees, the financial sector is under-taxed

George Osborne to cut 55% pension 'death tax'

Pensioners will be able to leave more of their money to the next generation from next April, George Osborne is to announce at the Tory conference.

Prada Bosses Probed Over Alleged Tax Evasion

Neither the company nor any of its subsidiaries was or is involved in this matter

Finland: Paatero should lead the fight against tax evasion

In her view, shortcomings are not the result of illegal acts, but due to a lack of tax treaties and laws.

Mansion tax — it’s an explosive issue

£2 million or more — brought a slightly less explosive reaction

Billionaires and Tax Evaders On The Rise In Greece

A French court has concluded that 1.1 billion euros in foreign-held UBS accounts requires further investigation.

Global Tax Reform Will Boost Ireland's Competitiveness: Noonan

Noonan was nevertheless positive about the BEPS project

UK government reveals new tax evasion scheme for multinationals

Global corporations based in the UK will now have to report where they make their profits and pay their taxes to HMRC

Why Labour’s Mansion Tax shows that it has lost touch with financial reality

The fact that the Mansion Tax is so badly designed and illogical suggests that it would soon mutate into a full-blown, French-style wealth tax

Labour's plans for Mansion Tax and tax avoidance - Baker Tilly

Addressing the Labour Party conference in Manchester, Labour leader Ed Miliband has outlined plans to introduce a ‘Mansion Tax’ on properties worth over £2m, and a clampdown on tax loopholes by hedge funds and large firms that ‘mov

Mansion tax will see thousands of new homes caught by fiscal drag

Many more of us may find that we also- officially- live in a "mansion" by 2025.

UK Tax Evasion Widens on HMRC Cuts and Lack of Avoidance Law

The other areas that contribute to the tax gap are tax avoidance

French court rules UBS to deposit 1.1 billion euro in tax probe

UBS, which appealed in July, had already paid a much smaller 2.875 million-euro guarantee in the case.

The UK is a 'tax haven', whether we like it or not

Archaic rules mean the world sees us as a tax haven

European court adds hundreds of millions to UK bank taxes

VAT ruling means tax will be charged on services between banks' international operations in latest ruling to hit UK financial sector