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Australian companies could fall foul of the same state aid rules being applied to Apple to crack down on tax avoidance.
Philip Green has been vilified by MPs just as Theresa May vows to take on bad behaviour in big business. New research reveals just how urgent a task this is for voters.
The number crunchers who helped create our capitalist world have been measuring the world since ancient times.
Lionel Messi is not the first footballer to break financial laws and he probably won’t be the last.
The basic difference is that avoidance is legal and evasion is not. But it’s not quite as simple as that.
Measures to tackle aggressive tax avoidance and evasion have been talked about by the EU and UK for a while. It’s beginning to take effect.
Authorities have been slow to respond to the tax revelations of the Panama Papers.
Businesses are reducing the UK tax take with a new form of self-employment which harks back to mediaeval England.
Whether or not David Cameron’s association with an offshore fund was legal isn’t the point.
We want a tax system that is structured fairly and for other people to pay what they are meant to. Determining what this is, though. is tricky.
Sweeping changes to employment law are of far greater concern than allegations that the Front National has been avoiding tax.
Proponents of tax havens would argue tax evasion may not be moral, but isn’t criminal. History suggests this is a slippery slope.
Tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, Switzerland, the British Virgin Islands and Panama have a few key things in common.
The headlines are full of stories of corruption and mega scandals, but what does it mean for the rest of us? And what makes the economic cost of corruption so high?
Polls put the Pirate Party ahead of the already unpopular coalition, making new financial revelations particularly damaging.
World leaders are meeting in London next month to discuss corruption – what better opportunity to close tax loopholes?
The ATO’s data dump of how much tax was paid by largest private companies raising more questions than it answers.
Why we shouldn’t be so quick to celebrate reports that Facebook is paying more tax.
Behind the corporations legally avoiding paying tax are the big four accounting firms, helping them avoid transparency.
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Accounting, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD Candidate, casual academic, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, University of Essex
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Professor of Taxation, QUT Business School, and ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer, Accounting Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of International Politics, City St George's, University of London
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Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney
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Lecturer/Accounting, UNSW
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Professor of Business and Society, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Accounting Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, The Open University
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Visiting Professor of Tax Law, New York University, and Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of Tax Law, The University of Western Australia