by George Turner | Jun 27, 2019
Starbucks’s London based HQ for its Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) division returned $448m to its US parent company in 2018, but paid just $27m in tax after the majority of its non-UK income was exempted from tax. Is that just the international tax system...
by George Turner | Jun 25, 2019
TaxWatch’s Director, George Turner, wrote an op-ed for the Independent setting out why the government’s recent Tax Gap figures should be treated with caution. The article sets out how the government’s estimates of tax avoidance vastly underestimate...
by George Turner | Jun 20, 2019
HMRC has this morning published its latest estimate of uncollected taxes, the “Tax Gap”. It shows that on the HMRC methodology the amount of tax uncollected went up by £2bn in 2018 to £35bn. This is in cash terms the highest on record and an increase of...
by George Turner | Jun 5, 2019
The European Commission has replied to TaxWatch’s call to launch an investigation into the tax structure of Google. The Commission has said it will consider the information provided by TaxWatch as part of its ongoing investigation into tax agreements in Ireland and...
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...
