David Gauke welcomes the Fair Tax Mark as a valuable contribution to the debate about tax transparency Treasury Minister David Gauke yesterday said the government approved of the principles behind the Fair Tax Mark and suggested it could be a ‘valuable contribution to the debate’ about corporate tax avoidance and greater transparency. The Minister’s remarks came during an adjournment debate …
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Image: Catherine Bebbington/Parliamentary Copyright Commons to debate Fair Tax Mark Less than a month old and the Fair Tax Mark is already attracting a good deal of attention in parliament. A debate on the Fair Tax Mark is being held in the Westminster Hall at 11am this morning. Proposed by Caroline Lucas MP, the half-hour adjournment debate will see MPs …
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The Fair Tax Mark’s Meesha Nehru on what the Fair Tax Mark is really about What we do is build trust between businesses and consumers through improved communication and accountability. Our role is to help companies provide enough information to explain their tax arrangements clearly so that anyone can understand them and make informed decisions based on what they’ve read. …
Read MoreThere are a number of parallels between the Fair Tax Mark and Fairtrade writes Tim Hunt. Since the launch of the Fair Tax Mark much has been made of our similarities with the Fairtrade Foundation. Our growth from a wider grassroots movement and our commitment to drive positive social change through consumer choice to name but two. And you don’t …
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Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament Early Day Motion starts to gather support The Fair Tax Mark is now the subject of an early day motion in the UK parliament. The motion “calls on the Government to endorse the idea of a Fair Tax Mark, to work with its founders to put fair tax at the …
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The Fair Tax Mark has got a lot of media attention over the last week. Here is a run down of the highlights. Fair Tax Mark launched with a bang last Thursday (Feb 20 2014) with a full page piece in the Guardian. The article reported on a roundtable discussion on tax avoidance and the Fair Tax Mark with tax …
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Image courtesy of LiveSurface Context 1) Cutting the tax gap Around £12 billion is being lost in tax revenue every year. At a time of severe cuts in public services we need this money. If this revenue were collected it would fund the training of almost half a million midwives and pay the salaries of half a million teachers for …
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Some of the UK’s leading voices on tax agree that the Fair Tax Mark is a step in the right direction. That was the general consensus at a recent round table discussion organised by one of our pioneer companies Midcounties Co-operative. The forum, run in association with the Guardian and published today, was attended by some of the country’s leading …
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The Phone Co-op is an independent consumer co-operative based in Manchester, Chipping Norton and London. It is the only telecoms provider in the UK that is owned and run by its customers. The Phone Co-op operates nationwide, providing fixed and mobile telecommunications services to over 23,000 residential and business customers, including other co-operatives, charities and third sector organisations.Since 2012, when …
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Margaret Hodge Margaret Hodge, the MP for Barking and Dagenham, chair of the influential Public Accounts Committee and general thorn in the side of tax-avoiding corporations, has described the Fair Tax Mark as ‘a fantastic idea’ that enables customers to ‘vote with their feet’. “The reaction to the revelations about the tax practices of big names like Starbucks, Amazon and …
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