by Alex Dunnagan | Apr 23, 2020
A consortium of financial services lobbyists has written to the European Commission calling for a delay to the implementation of anti-avoidance measures due to be rolled out on 01 July.1 As first reported in Law360,2 the letter – also sent to the OECD and to...
by Alex Dunnagan | Apr 1, 2020
Gambling is big business. The boss of bet365, Denise Coates, has been in the press recently for paying herself the staggering amount of £323m (£277m in salary plus £46m in dividends) last year, the equivalent of £1.3m per working day. £235bn in bets have been wagered...
by Alex Dunnagan | Mar 25, 2020
In an interview last week with the Italian daily “La Repubblica”, Pope Francis held tax dodgers partially responsible for the struggle Italian health services are now going through in trying to deal with covid.1 The coronavirus has hit Italy the hardest, with close to...
by Alex Dunnagan | Mar 20, 2020
A debate was held in the House of Commons yesterday on the Government Response to the Sir Amyas Morse Review of the Loan Charge. Ahead of this we published an explainer on what disguised remuneration is here, and a more detailed briefing here. David Davis, Ruth...
by Alex Dunnagan | Feb 4, 2020
An adjournment debate on Netflix’s tax affairs was held in the House of Commons last night in response to research conducted by TaxWatch. Rt Hon Dame Margaret Hodge, Labour MP for Barking and chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Responsible Tax, called...