Category: Tax Justice
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Shadow DfID statement on Government response to IDC report
Ivan Lewis MP, Labour’s Shadow International Development Secretary, responding to the Government’s response to the International Development Committee report on tax in developing countries said: I am disappointed that the Tory-led Government has rejected the Select Committee’s recommendation to conduct an analysis of the financial impact of the revised Controlled Foreign Companies (CFC) rules on
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Parliament Committee backs call for Government to abandon plans to rob poor countries of tax revenue
The House of Commons International Development Committee have joined the calls on the Government to abandon plans that could rob poor countries of up to £4 billion in lost tax revenues. LCID has been campaigning with Labour MPs and the charities ActionAid and Christian Aid against Osborne’s proposed changes to tax rules affecting UK-owned companies
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The real George Osborne
Guest post from the World Development Movement ‘New online comedy series about George Osborne,’ a colleague of mine said to two briefcase-clutching gents last week as she handed them a flyer outside the Treasury. ‘Ha, yes, we need that at the moment,’ replied one. ‘Just watch parliament TV, that’s a comedy featuring George Osborne,’ said
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Taxing times: is anything wrong with tax avoidance?
Joe Stead, Economic Justice Adviser – Christian Aid writes on a discussion on tax, tax avoidance and efforts to fight global poverty held at Labour Party Conference at the end of September. Now more than ever tax is a hot topic of political discussion, but being a hot topic can usually reduce discussion to a
Labour Campaign for International Development 