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New research* commissioned by the Fair Tax Mark reveals that the public want to see the UK Government intervene much more robustly to encourage responsible tax planning by business. Three quarters (74%) of those questioned support a call for all companies, whatever their size, to publicly disclose the taxes that they do or don’t pay in the UK – with just 4% of the public disagreeing. Currently small businesses are not required to disclose their profits and taxes paid, and can file abridged accounts at Companies House. And 6 in 10 (59%) believe that the Government and local councils should…

The newly formed Church Action for Tax Justice is calling on churches across the country to adopt June 17 as Tax Justice Sunday, as part of Fair Tax Fortnight. Launching the initiative, Reverend David Haslem, the Secretary of Church Action for Tax Justice, said: “Tax Justice must be one of the key mission imperatives for Christians in today’s world. How else can we possibly move on towards a more equal world, where all God’s children are fed?” “Church investors have been rightly publicly critical of the failure of the fossil fuel companies to accept international norms on how to combat climate change….

The Fair Tax Mark are supporting the call for the UK government to accept an amendment to the sanctions and anti-money laundering bill on Tuesday that would lift the veil of secrecy in Britain’s overseas territories. The letter, published in the Guardian this morning, calls on the UK government to “accept an amendment to the sanctions and anti-money laundering bill on Tuesday that would lift the veil of secrecy in Britain’s overseas territories”. The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill will be debated in parliament tomorrow, and the amendment to introduce a register revealing the beneficial owners of assets held in those…

The Fair Tax Mark​’s Richard Livings was at Parliament yesterday to support the launch of Church Action for Tax Justice (www.catj.org.uk). The campaign is designed to highlight the urgency of creating fairer and more effective tax systems to provide more funding for public services, in the UK and internationally. The launch, with contributions from Margaret Hodge MP, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Responsible Tax (@taxinparliament), former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, chair of Christian Aid​, and former bishop of Oxford, Richard Harries, marks the start of the campaigns efforts to end financial secrecy in UK tax havens like the…