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New TaxWatch briefing tackles three myths about the Digital Services Tax
As the US President prepares to fly into the UK with tech bosses in tow, a new briefing from TaxWatch shows that the US government and tech industry representatives have made strongly inaccurate claims about the UK’s Digital Services Tax.
Rayner tax error: government must stop dragging its feet on regulating tax advice
Successive governments have rejected calls for a tax advice regulator and minimum professional standards, which exist in many other countries from Australia to Germany. It’s high time that UK taxpayers got similar protections.
Big fish, little fish…
With limited resources, how should the UK prioritise different types and targets of tax enforcement?
The transparency registers that weren’t
UK ministers have praised five of the UK’s Overseas Territories for searchable registers revealing who really owns companies registered there. TaxWatch has found that one of these new registers doesn’t even exist, and others have erected last-minute legal blocks against access.