These are my links for August 31st: Economy at 60-year low, says Darling. And it will get worse | Politics | The Guardian – Let's be clear about this: the market has failed. We have to accept that and entirely reappraise how to manage the economy in the future. Some of us are up to
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So Barack Obama can promise tax cuts by “the closure of corporate tax loopholes and tax havens.” He’s right: he can. So why can’t anyone politician in the UK promise the same thing?

I expect we’ve all heard those news reports of people who have been stranded far from home with flights booked for their return only to find that their airline went bust, and thought “How does that feel?” Well now I know. I picked up my newspaper early on Friday morning in Montreal to find it
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So three more companies are planning to leave the UK. Let’s as usual set this in context: Charter has not paid UK tax and has no intention of doing so. They are a typical ‘free rifer’ – wanting to get all the benefits of the UK but wishing to pay nothing for them. And Henderson
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Every now and then we think a secrecy jurisdiction (tax haven) has gone out of business. Nauru was one we believed had fallen into its own black hole of secrecy. But sometimes they re-emerge, as this web site proves. The benefit for a place like Nauru of pursuing activity like his is marginal – they
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The arguments for a windfall tax on energy companies are complex. I am in favour of such a tax at this time. In forming that opinion I have, I admit, ignored much of the complexity and have fallen back on instinct. I see no harm in that: the reality is that almost all management decisions
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These are my links for August 27th: Tax Justice Network: In Africa, pay more attention to tax – IMF – "The average tax-to-GDP ratio in sub-Saharan Africa increased from less than 15 percent of GDP in 1980 to more than 18 percent in 2005. But virtually the entire increase in tax revenue in the region
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As some people are aware, one of my major activities at present is co-directing a research project for the Tax Justice Network which is being funded by the Ford Foundation. This project is called Mapping the Faultlines and the aim is to identify where and how illicit fund flows take place. One of the initial
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The Jersey Evening Post has reported that Guernsey’s Housing Minister, Dave Jones has condemned Jersey’s fledgling executive government system as a failure, saying: Jersey went for a form of executive government that clearly is not working. Nor does it have a general election in the true sense of the word. It has a series of
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