The EU Code of Conduct on Business Taxation group met in Brussels this week to consider the measures Jersey and the Isle of Man are proposing to take to make their tax systems compliant with EU
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Gillian Tett has written the following in the FT this morning: The past three decades of financial history are sometimes described as a period when free market
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I have given much attention to the Mirrlees review by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in the past – just look here and take your pick. Now
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Is today crunch time? Nothing tried so far to tackle the Euro debt crisis has worked. Austerity is simply like signing an economic suicide note. Expecting repayment of much of
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There’s been a lot of comment today on the need for a new round of quantitative easing. Adam Posen and David Blanchflower are calling for
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I have a very strong feeling that George Osborne is ready made to be cast in a remake of this where Bank Control issues the
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If you listened to UK politicians yesterday you would think the banking crisis was solved. 300 odd pages of report from John Vickers and a promise
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From the FT on the US Republican candidate debate last night: The debate on Monday evening, held in Tampa, Florida, was co-hosted by CNN and
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Dave Hartnett told the Treasury Select Committee yesterday: All our legal advice is that winning in the Court of Appeal may not be enough for us to
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