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Finance Bill 2014: New focus on control to tackle false self-employment
HMRC is consulting on legislation to prevent the use of ‘onshore employment intermediaries’ to avoid 13.8% employer NICs and reduce costs associated with employment rights, such as sick pay and pension...
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Tax transparency alone will not restore trust, warns ICAEW (Tax Journal)
ICAEW’s Tax Faculty has warned that a widespread belief that some businesses can pay less than their fair share of tax can undermine confidence in the tax system. An eight-page paper titled ‘Taxing...
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OECD publishes responses to digital economy paper (Tax Journal)
The OECD has published comments received on its discussion paper on the tax challenges presented by the digital economy. The respondents included Deloitte, the CIOT, the International Bar Association...
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BEPS debate needs more practitioner input, says former tax lawyer (Tax Journal)
The OECD will have ‘plenty of economic analysis to drawn upon’ during the course of the BEPS project but there is a need for more commentary on practical questions, according to a former City tax...
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Christian charity defends $160bn ‘tax dodging’ claim (Tax Journal)
A leading charity’s claim that ‘tax dodging’ by multinationals costs developing countries an estimated US$160bn a year falls short of the standards that campaigners expect from companies, according to...
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Tax reliefs under scrutiny as Hodge defies critics (Tax Journal)
Commons public accounts committee insists that recent reports and forthcoming tax reliefs inquiry are within its remit Much can be done unilaterally to combat BEPS, says David Quentin Debate resembles...
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BEPS: Priorities and concerns (Tax Journal)
The G20/OECD project on measures to tackle base erosion and profit-shifting (BEPS) appears to be on track despite a very ambitious timetable. But the project is still in its early stages, and there are...
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