The following was announced this morning on TechRadar: Play.com, one of the UK’s biggest e-tailers, has announced that it is to be bought by Rakuten, a Japanese
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Larry Elliott has summed up what the IMF said yesterday rather pithily: The IMF has plenty of advice for those running the global economy. It
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As the Guardian reports this morning: Britain’s most senior taxman has admitted making “governance errors” when agreeing multibillion-pound settlements with large companies. Dave Hartnett, HMRC’s
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This news has just been released by the US government: The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has developed a voluntary framework under which governments publicly disclose their
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As Tax-News.com has reported (straight from a press release, so I feel happy to copy it): Jersey’s Comptroller of Taxes has remitted to EU member
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This is welcome news from the Press Association: Any future cut to the corporation tax rate in Northern Ireland will have to wait for at
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As the Guardian reports this morning: More than a third of the subsidiaries owned by major energy and mining companies including Shell, BP and Glencore are based
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Buffett’s law is an idea gaining traction in the USA. Of course it is wrong that billionaire’s pay less tax on their overall income than
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I have now read what Vince Cable had to say yesterday (I was in court when he spoke). Polly Toynbee has written well on this
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