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Citizens Turn On Avoidance

 
 
Andrew Goodall looks beyond the national debate and finds citizens adding their voice to calls for effective international action to stem erosion of the 'tax base'
 
Campaigners from ten countries met in Paris last month to discuss global taxation issues and found themselves surrounded by Russian TV cameras.
 
The Global Tax Justice Network invited a key witness for Russian prosecutors in the case against Yukos director Mikhail Khodorkovsky to address a press conference. The next day US journalist Lucy Komisar told an audience of 200 people some of the 50 000 attending the European Social Forum how the large accounting firms 'help people around the world cheat on their taxes'.
 
Beyond the rather narrow debate about tax avoidance in the UK...

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