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The tax gap

The Guardian will examine the extent of tax avoidance by big business, day by day over two weeks. We are naming more than 20 major British companies, and analysing their secretive tax strategies to ask: are they paying their fair share? An interactive database of tax data from the UK’s 100 biggest firms enables Guardian readers to make their own investigations, and to post discoveries and comments of their own to tax gap blog. The Guardian team is led by investigations editor David Leigh.

17 December 2010
  • Inland Revenue tax return form

    Tax cheats avoiding fines when caught

    Government claims system saves time and money but critics say the deals mean that there is little deterrent

26 June 2009

  • Chancellor prepares to 'name and shame' tax-avoiding banks

    Exclusive: Guardian understands that Alistair Darling has a hit list of UK and international banks which he will invite to sign his new code of conduct on tax

4 June 2009

  • Treasury plans to scrap anti-tax-avoidance measure

    MPs fight a threat to repeal a section of the Companies Act vital to obstructing the flow of capital offshore

10 May 2009

  • Queen's banker Coutts caught up in row over tax avoidance scheme

    Nearly 300 customers forced to repay £400m in tax after ruling by HM Revenue & Customs

4 May 2009

  • Obama outlines moves to close corporate tax loopholes

    President Barack Obama today outlined moves to crack down on American companies and individuals' use of overseas tax shelters and rewriting the tax code to encourage companies to invest in the US

1 May 2009

  • UBS fights US demands for tax names

    Swiss bank said in a court filing that handing over the names of 52,000 Americans suspected of tax evasion would force its staff to break the country's famous privacy law

22 April 2009

  • Budget 2009: clampdown on tax avoidance schemes to raise £4bn

    Super-rich who store money in tax havens will not face prosecution if they pay back money owed to Exchequer

13 April 2009

  • Swiss bank 'to close US customer accounts'

    Credit Suisse customers offered choice of financial details being revealed to US authorities or having cash returned

10 April 2009

  • OECD renews attack on Switzerland's banking secrecy

  • Delaware Greeting Card from Wilmington, Delaware

    Welcome to tax-dodge city, USA

    Andrew Clark

9 April 2009

  • Tax havens must end culture of secrecy or face sanctions

    Prime minister Gordon Brown pressures overseas territories to share tax information with authorities

7 April 2009

  • Blacklisted tax havens agree to implement OECD disclosure rules

    Blacklisted tax havens Uruguay, Costa Rica, the Philippines and Malaysia pledge to implement OECD's disclosure rules

5 April 2009

  • Barclays denies whistleblower was forced out

    Dismissed banker claims to have been made redundant after raising issues relating to bank's tax avoidance schemes

2 April 2009

  • The work starts here

    Felicity Lawrence

    Felicity Lawrence: In any rewriting of the rules of 21st-century capitalism, banking secrecy must be tackled

1 April 2009

  • US and Gibraltar agree to share tax information

    Tim Geithner has signed a deal with Gibraltar to exchange tax information as part of a clampdown on tax avoidance

31 March 2009

  • Liechtenstein tax deal edges closer as France begins fraud inquiry

    Treasury on brink of deal to stop British companies using bank accounts in Liechtenstein to avoid tax

27 March 2009

  • Barclays tax documents: how Matthew Oakeshott told their lordships what we couldn't

    Lib Dem peer could reveal leaked documents because of parliamentary privilege of freedom of speech

26 March 2009

  • The brand new fridge freezers that cost 18p each… and other ways to avoid tax

  • Lib Dem spokesman dodges gag order to reveal Barclays tax documents

23 March 2009

  • Brown plans global scrutiny of tax havens

    Prime minister to discuss proposals for a multilateral exchange of information on 'offshore' accounts

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