by George Turner | Oct 29, 2019
A government pledge to name and shame aggressive tax avoiders has failed to list a single company, new research by TaxWatch has revealed. In 2016, as part of the Government’s crackdown on tax dodging Parliament put in place a set of measures designed to improve the...
by Alex Dunnagan | Oct 9, 2019
A report from The Guardian, Revealed: global video games giants avoiding millions in UK tax, has shown that four large companies have claimed close to half of all Video Games Tax Relief (VGTR) since the scheme’s inception. The cost of Video Games Tax Relief has...
by George Turner | Aug 4, 2019
Activision Blizzard, the publisher of hit games Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush, moved €5bn to companies in Bermuda and Barbados between 2013-2017. The report World of Taxcraft details how the corporate structure of Activision Blizzard, which includes...
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...