The multi-millionaire columnist Polly Toynbee is this morning ranting against tax dodging corporations in the Guardian. The paper has even set up a campaigning website with fancy interactive graphics. According to the their own annual report Guardian Media Group made £306.4 million before tax. Using astute tax planning and legal manipulation of the tax laws; such as the use of an equity owning tr...

The distinctly Left-leaning Guardian newspaper (part of the Guardian Media Group) is predictably having a go at Corporation Tax dodgers. There's nothing wrong with that in principle. However, when one looks at their own latest year-end accounts, as Guido has done, one finds that they didn't pay any tax at all, out of a turnover for the year of some half a billion pounds. Indeed, they had a

This is just terribly, terribly, amusing. Several people have already referred in comments to Simon Jenkins’ article in the Guardian on tax today – which is very good (everyone has their day). I recommend it. As he concludes: Property taxes cannot be evaded, and properly imposed are a fair generator of government revenue. Better, they are traditionally paid in

As Bob and The Guardian point out: The Guardian has learned that Alexander Heath, a director of the increasingly influential free market, rightwing lobby group, lives in a farmhouse in the Loire and has not paid British tax for years. As The Guardian then doesn’t go on to point out The Scott Trust is based in the

Polly's new book. 11.99 from The Guardian. 8.57 from Amazon.co.uk. So, what's it like to be ripped off by a tax dodging, loss making charity that was deliberately set up to avoid inheritance tax then anyway? OK, OK, super saver delivery on orders over 15….

As usual, they’re wittering along without paying a blind bit of notice to the real world outside their windows. Houses are taxed too little Really? Property tax as a percentage of total tax collected by the country. Showing latest available data. .td70 { width: 70px; text-align: right; }

Well, quite: Grant Thornton senior tax partner Mike Warburton said: "Guardian Media Group has enjoyed a tax holiday courtesy of some very helpful rules introduced by their friend Gordon Brown. They are taking full advantage of the relief legally available to them, which all businesses should do. That's fine, but don't knock people who do exactly

Excellent news. After that little fiasco over their 6 month investigation of Tesco’s tax dodging (which led, as you might remember, to a libel suit and if I recall correctly, the payment of damages) The Guardian has decided to go after Tony Blair’s tax structures. Here. But why should I praise them for doing what would be a

Vanessa Neumann, a self-confessed product of Venezuela's maligned "oligarchy", writes to The Guardian letters with some facts to prove Chavez is the dictatorial monster The Guardian seems determined to portray him as. In the comments section, though, it would appear Ms Neumann (and The Guardian) have been rumbled.... I live in the US and read The Guardian because I cannot stand the biased US ...

Tax Justice campaigners had a small demonstration outside the Guardian's offices today to protest at the hypocrisy of the Guardian campaigning for FTSE 100 companies to pay more corporation tax when it paid none itself despite GMG making £300 million in profits last year. GMG took advantage of a perfectly legal loophole to avoid paying taxes on the capital gains made on the sale of Auto Trader. W...