Google's "brazen" explanation for its tax affairs is "deeply unconvincing" and makes "absolutely no sense", according to a report from a influential c...
On Monday Ed Balls is expected to deliver a major speech setting out Labour's case on the economy ahead of George Osborne's spending review next month.
MPs have blasted the "feeble and wimpish" Office of Fair Trading for failing to get to grips with payday lending companies. The "predatory" compani...
Google boss Eric Schmidt today said he was "perplexed" by the debate over the company's tax affairs. The internet giant's executive chairman insist...
In an ideal world, Google should be paying more in tax, but don't hold your breath when international agreement is the only state-based solution. Instead, public pressure is the strongest force to persuade companies that it is in their interests to make a 'moral' contribution in tax.
The ten things you need to know on Friday 17 May 2013... 1) A PRE-ELECTION DIVORCE? With just two years to go till the general election, and the...
The UK arm of internet shopping giant Amazon paid corporation tax of just £2.4 million last year despite earning sales of £4.2 billion. Details o...
The ten things you need to know on Thursday 16 May 2013... 1) THE GREAT EU PROTEST VOTE So, Dave, how are all those carrots and concessions on E...
MPs have voiced doubts about the credibility of the coalition's £310 billion plan for boosting Britain's infrastructure. The Public Accounts Commi...
Big accountancy firms are using "insider knowledge" gained from Treasury staff to help companies and wealthy individuals avoid paying UK taxes. The...
The senior MP who chairs a Commons spending watchdog has hit out at Parliament for "failing to provide good value for money" as politicians prepared f...
The ten things you need to know on Monday 22 April... 1) 'CRUNCH WEEK' FOR OSBORNE The Telegraph says this is the "crunch week" for the chancell...
As part of his bid to justify a raft of new welfare reforms, George Osborne pointed to families claiming as much as £100,000 a year in housing benefi...
The Department of Work and Pensions has little idea how plans to cut housing benefit will affect claimants and if the reforms will even save money, MP...
The number of prisoner escapes has increased as staffing numbers are cut, MPs have warned. Assaults on staff, suicides and self harm are also up, s...
"An influential committee of MPs has said" is one of the most overused phrases by political reporters in Westminster. There are over 20 Commons select...
The ten things you need to know on Friday 22 February 2013... 1) DOES THE WORK PROGRAMME, ER, WORK? The Public Accounts Committee strikes again!...
More unemployed people would have found jobs since 2010 if the government's high-profile, multi-billion pound Work Programme had never been invented, ...
The Conservative Party's links to Google have come under fire after the internet giant's boss said he was "proud" of his company's tax avoidance schem...
Starbucks, Google and Amazon were accused of "immorally" minimising their UK tax bills in a damning report by a spending watchdog today. The Public...
A hearing spanning almost three hours into how international companies pay income tax in the UK resulted in little progress as MPs struggled to land m...
Leading chiefs from some of the UK's biggest companies will appear before MPs on 12 November to give evidence on the issue of tax avoidance. Matt B...
David Cameron was handed a bitter defeat by his own MPs over the EU budget, with Eurosceptic Tories conspiring with Labour to deliver a victory over t...
There is real concern that NHS organisations will go bankrupt under the new arrangements being brought in by the Government's health reforms but minis...
Margaret Hodge has defended the role of the powerful Commons public accounts committee, which she chairs, after Michael Gove said it was one of the co...
