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March 2012
CBT comments on the 2012 Budget
Katarzyna Bilicka and Michael Devereux's work on the UK's G20 ranking has been quoted in The Financial Times as part of the post-Budget comment here |
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November 2011
John Vella gives evidence to the House of Lords
John Vella, Senior Research Fellow, gave evidence to the House of Lords EU Sub-Commmittee A (Economic and Financial Affairs and International Trade) on the proposed Financial Transaction Tax (FTT). The full session of the Committee can be watched on Parliament TV here.
His evidence was based on a paper he has written with Clemens Fuest and Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr that will appear in the next issue of the British Tax Review, to be published in December 2011. The paper can be downloaded here. |
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November 2011
Two doctoral theses completed
Jing Xing, a new CBT Research Fellow, and Geoffrey Loomer, a former CBT doctoral student and now Associate Professor at Dalhousie University in Canada, have both recently successfully completed their doctoral studies. Abstracts of their theses can be found here. |
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November 2011
New Paper: Response on EU Proposal for a Financial Transaction Tax
There have been various calls for the introduction of a Financial Transaction Tax (otherwise known as a Robin Hood Tax or a Tobin Tax) in recent times. The EU Commission published a proposal for an EU-wide Financial Transaction Tax on the 28th of September 2011. John Vella, Clemens Fuest and Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr have written a paper responding to the EU Commission’s proposal, which can be downloaded here.
This paper was cited in the Sunday Telegraph on the 6th November 2011. More details
The paper will be published in the next issue of the British Tax Review which will come out in December - [2011] British Tax Review No 6. British Tax Review
For press release, please click here. |
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September 2011
New Book: The Delicate Balance
The Delicate Balance: Tax, Discretion and the Rule of Law, (IBFD), edited by Chris Evans, Judith Freedman and Richard Krever is now available. More details can be found here.
This book is the outcome of a conference held in Prato, Italy in September 2010.
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August 2011
New VAT Adviser to the Portuguese Government
Rita de la Feria has been appointed Adviser to the Portuguese Government on VAT Policy. She will be working with the Government to ensure that the forthcoming VAT reforms are both in line with what has been agreed under the terms of the IMF/ECB/EC bail-out agreement, signed May 2011, and also with best international practice in this area. |
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10 June 2011
'Prohibition of Abuse of Law: A New General Principle of EU Law', edited by Rita de la Feria and Stefan Vogenauer, is now available. More details |
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8 June 2011
Registration for the Summer Conference has opened. For more details, click here |
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11 May 2011
Tax Seminar Series
The programme for this term's tax seminars has now been published. |
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8 April 2011
Award for CBT Research Fellow
Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr and his co-author Friederike Niepmann have won the Klaus Liebscher Award 2011 for their paper "Bank Bailouts, International Linkages and Cooperation". |
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21 March 2011
Two new policy articles published:
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16 March 2011
Report on the EU's proposals for a Common Tax Base
The Centre has released a new report on the EU's proposals for a common tax base.
The report can be downloaded here |
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1 March 2011
Report on Corporation Tax in the United Kingdom
The Centre is pleased to annouced the release of its report on Corporation Tax in the United Kingdom.
The report can be downloaded here. |
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26 January 2011
Call for papers
On June 20-22 2012, the Centre and the National Bureau of Economic Research will be jointly sponsoring the Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar. We welcome submissions on any topic, both empirical and theoretical, dealing with business taxation.
More details are available here |
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26 January 2011
Corporate Tax Reform conference
We are holding a conference on the government's proposals corporate tax reform on 3 March in London.
More details are available here |
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17 January 2011
Judith Freedman has been appointed to HM Treasury's Avoidance Study Group, which will investigate the case for a General Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAAR) in the UK.
The HM Treasury press release is available here (external link) |
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14 January 2011
We are pleased to annouce the Hilary Term programme for the Centre's popular taxation seminars. All welcome - for more details click here |
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15 December 2010
The Centre for Business Taxation's Annual Report for 2009/10 is now available. It can be download in PDF form here |