Transparency has been lauded as a solution to the ’dirty tactics’ of tax avoidance some critics say is rife in international financial centres. Robert Duggan wonders whether they’re on to something…
It is perhaps unsurprising that mass media outlets in the UK have increased their focus on tax avoidance by large corporations as well as by private individuals, not least as we begin to feel the pinch from the government’s austerity package and as politicians start to limber up for the next general election. Hearts and minds are to be won, and the legality and morality of tax mitigation are hot topics with a plentiful diet of opinion.
