by George Turner | May 2, 2019
Mel Stride, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, recently confirmed concerns raised in the latest TaxWatch report, that the UK’s tax treaties will render the government’s latest attempt to tax the tech giants ineffective. In our report we analysed the government’s...
by George Turner | Apr 26, 2019
TaxWatch has today written to Commissioner Vestager requesting that the European Commission open an investigation into Google’s European Tax Avoidance scheme, the Double Irish Dutch Sandwich, and specifically whether the Dutch and Irish Governments have provided state...
by George Turner | Feb 16, 2019
Reports from France tell us that the French tax authorities have reached a settlement with Apple after an investigation into Apple’s tax payments in the country going back 10 years. Although the accounts of Apple’s French subsidiaries have not yet been published, the...
by George Turner | Nov 6, 2018
How should profit be distributed within the modern multinational corporation? That is the key question at the heart of the debate on international tax avoidance, and one touched on by Taxwatch’s first report. The aspiration of the OECD reforms to the international...
by George Turner | Oct 28, 2018
A new report released today by TaxWatch, finds that profit shifting by just five tech companies could be costing the UK up to £1bn a year in lost revenues. The data, which is being released the day before the Chancellor gives his budget on Monday, shows that despite a...
