Founded a decade ago to help reverse the global race to the bottom on corporation tax, the Fair Tax Foundation[1] are aiming to level up our impact fivefold with a Community Share Offer unveiled today. Launching on social investment platform Ethex[2], the Community Share Offer will seek to raise £450,000 to allow the Fair Tax Foundation to embed tax justice …
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The Tax Responsibility and Transparency Index has a brand-new website, allowing multinational companies even better access to this pioneering benchmarking tool. The Index, which was announced at the European Parliament in April 2024, enables businesses to benchmark themselves against high-bar, civil society frameworks, pending legislation and pioneering companies broken down by country or sector. This leadership pool is anonymised but participating …
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We are delighted to have received £100,000 investment from charitable foundation the Barrow Cadbury Trust, taking our community share offer more than 25% of the way to our target. On 2 September 2024, we launched a community share offer on social investment platform Ethex looking to raise £450,000 to expand our operations and bring five times as many businesses into …
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In this series for the Fair Tax Foundation, our accredited organisations tell us how the Fair Tax Mark has helped open opportunities or overcome challenges specific to their sector. Here, Coventry Building Society Senior Manager Finance Ops & Controls Claire Newton and Ecology Building Society CEO Gareth Griffiths discuss the responsibility to members inherent to building societies. Events such as the 2008 financial crisis, …
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Scotland-based Mercat Tours International have been awarded the Fair Tax Mark, joining progressive businesses across the UK and Europe accredited to the gold standard of responsible tax conduct. For more than two decades, Mercat Tours International have offered tour packages to some of the key sites of 20th century European history. Through World War I and World War II tours …
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Mercat Tours have been awarded the Fair Tax Mark, joining progressive businesses across the UK and Europe accredited to the gold standard of responsible tax conduct. Founded in 1985 by a group of history teachers, Mercat Tours offer history walks, ghost tours and private tours across Edinburgh and Scotland. Providing visitors with “a warm welcome and a damn good story”, …
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UK property and capital allowance consultancy EMW STax have been awarded the Fair Tax Mark, demonstrating their commitment to responsible tax practices. Established in 2011, EMW STax bring together more than 60 years of knowledge and experience in property tax and accounting in order to serve a range of clients. They are part of a group of companies, the parent …
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Fair Tax Leaders features senior professionals from across the Fair Tax Mark accredited business community. Here, Lendology Commercial and Finance Director Anna Osborne discusses the growing importance of fair tax in procurement and ESG reporting, and her career journey to date. Lendology are a not-for-profit community interest company working with local authorities across the South West of the UK to …
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Last year we noted how the inclusion of responsible tax in businesses’ sustainability, ESG and impact reports was improving but still left much to be desired. So, here’s three ways our Fair Tax Mark accredited businesses are talking about tax in their sustainability reports – we hope you’ll be inspired to explore it in yours. 1. As a key component …
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With their iconic Oxford Street shopping district blighted by ‘dodgy’ American-style candy stores that had evaded around £9mn of local business rate taxes, in 2022 Westminster City Council launched a ground-breaking anti-dirty money and fair tax charter. Almost two years on, the authority’s efforts are beginning to turn the tide and see legitimate business come to the fore: candy stores …
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