UK Tax

Tax Avoidance Revenues 'Could Eradicate World Hunger'

PA | Posted 19.05.2013 | UK

World hunger could be eradicated if the revenues that developing countries lose through tax dodging were available to them to invest in agricultural d...

The Australian Federal Budget Means Nothing to Me

Xavier Toby | Posted 17.05.2013 | UK Comedy
Xavier Toby

What does the budget mean to me? Me personally? It means nothing. Absolutely nothing. After looking through every different list in the media of 'wha...

Mehdi's Morning Memo: A Pre-Election Divorce?

Huffington Post | Mehdi Hasan | Posted 17.05.2013 | UK Politics

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...

How Much Tax Did Amazon Pay After £4.2bn Sales?

PA | Posted 16.05.2013 | UK

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...

Give London The Same Powers As Scotland And Wales, Says Boris

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Tom Moseley | Posted 15.05.2013 | UK

Boris Johnson wants London to be given the same financial powers as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The mayor said it was time to treat the c...

Tax Havens - Who Pays The Price?

Alex Prats | Posted 14.05.2013 | UK
Alex Prats

'Tax haven' may increasingly be a term of abuse but for multinationals, they remain extremely popular places to have subsidiaries. With their low tax rates and high secrecy, their financial benefits outweigh their reputational risks.

Google Defends UK Tax Bill

PA | Posted 22.04.2013 | UK Tech

Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt has defended the internet giant's tax affairs, saying the firm was playing a key role in the UK's high-tech g...

Tax Break For Games Industry Delayed

The Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 18.04.2013 | UK Tech

A planned tax break for the UK games industry has been delayed pending an EU investigation. Due to come into force on 1 April, the measure was desi...

Npower Admits Paying No Corporation Tax for Three Years

PA | Posted 16.04.2013 | UK

Npower has admitted it has not paid corporation tax in the UK for three years, saying it has invested "billions" in new power stations and wind techno...

David Cameron 'Relaxed' About Publishing Details Of His Tax Returns

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 15.04.2013 | UK Politics

David Cameron remains "relaxed" about publishing his tax returns Downing Street has said. On Monday morning the prime minister's spokesman said Cam...

Welfare Myth Three - The Poor Don't Pay Taxes

Dr Simon Duffy | Posted 11.04.2013 | UK Politics
Dr Simon Duffy

A common rhetorical trick for politicians is to talk about 'looking after the tax payer'. However the reality is that they are often only really concerned with particular tax payers - the electoral groups that determine the outcomes of elections - often people on middle-incomes.

Google And Facebook May Have To Pay Tax On 'Free' Lunches

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 09.04.2013 | UK Tech

Silicon Valley companies like Google and Facebook are famously excellent places to work - with employees treated to great benefits, cool offices, heft...

Children Living in Poverty Are Facing a Perfect Storm

Anne Marie Carrie | Posted 07.04.2013 | UK Politics
Anne Marie Carrie

If the government is to have any hope of meeting its legal duty to eradicate child poverty by 2020, it must closely monitor how the benefits cap affects the wellbeing of the UK's poorest families.

Labour Are 'Pulling The Wool' Over Tax Changes

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 07.04.2013 | UK Politics

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has attacked Labour for trying to "pull the wool over people's eyes" about sweeping tax changes that came into effect...

'Tax Cut For Bankers'

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Tom Moseley | Posted 06.04.2013 | UK

Bankers and other millionaires will receive a tax cut from Saturday - sparking a furious debate between the political parties. As the government tr...

Benefit Cuts Are 'Unjust'

The Huffington Post UK/PA | Posted 07.04.2013 | UK

A group of leading churches has branded the Government's cuts to benefits as "unjust", saying the most vulnerable people are paying a "disproportionat...

'My Boys Share A Room'

The Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 31.03.2013 | UK Politics

Millionaire Tory party chairman, Grant Shapps, has defended the so-called "bedroom tax" insisting that even his children share a bedroom. But it wa...

Thousands Of Bedroom Tax Protesters March Nationwide

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 31.03.2013 | UK

Thousands of people around the country have protested against the so-called "bedroom tax", which will cut the benefit of social housing tenants with a...

Sky High Tax on Flying To Soar Further

Simon Buck | Posted 20.05.2013 | UK
Simon Buck

Disappointingly, but not unsurprisingly, yesterday the Chancellor stuck to his short-sighted plans to increase the UK's Air Passenger Duty (APD) for yet another year. It flies in the face of new evidence from PwC pointing to the economic benefits of abolishing APD...

The Chancellor Must Tax for Growth, Not Populist Appeasement

Michael Wistow | Posted 19.05.2013 | UK Politics
Michael Wistow

George Osborne must resist the temptation to use the Budget unilaterally to try and force multinationals to pay more tax in the UK in an ill-considered way and without consultation. The wheels are already in motion internationally to address contentious issues such as so-called 'profit shifting' and other measures that erode the tax base.

Rebalancing the Budget

Dan Gregory | Posted 18.05.2013 | UK Politics
Dan Gregory

So George Osborne has lost his treasured AAA rating. We are now heading for record consecutive quarters of stop-start growth. Youth unemployment is at an all-time high. Neither the deficit nor the debt is coming down and there's no money to do anything about it. If we want to spend more we have to borrow more, and even Ed Balls can't be sure we'll end up better off if we do.

Who Do Tax Policies Hit The Hardest?

PA | Posted 20.03.2013 | UK Politics

The poorest households are the biggest losers from the Government's tax policies, according to a union study. The TUC said that by the time of the ...

Protests Against 'Cruel' Bedroom Tax Taking Place In 50 Towns

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 16.03.2013 | UK Politics

Protests are taking place nationwide against a new "bedroom tax" that will cut benefits to people with a spare room. Under the government's welfare...

Fraudsters Faked Hollywood Blockbuster Starring Andrea McLean In Tax Scam

PA | Posted 13.03.2013 | UK

Fraudsters who pretended to be behind a Hollywood blockbuster were forced to hastily make a film called A Landscape Of Lies on a shoestring budget in ...

Real Time Information - Still the SME Sector Is in the Dark and Implementation Date Looms

Jane Scott Paul | Posted 03.05.2013 | UK
Jane Scott Paul

The biggest change to the PAYE system since it came into operation over 65 years ago - Real Time Information (RTI) is the new system for reporting tax, NI and other details to HMRC and comes into effect in April.