The following are the speaking notes for a lecture I am giving this morning at the Treasury ——————– The title of this lecture has, I note been advertised as “Tax and morality – fellow travellers in an uncertain world?” But let me make clear, I’m not here to give a lecture on morality, per se.
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I have received an email from Prof Judith Freedman of The Centre for Business Taxation at the Said Business School. She says: I have noted recent references to GANTIP in your blog. It would be nice if you would acknowledge, as you did at fn 59 of your paper written for the  TUC , that
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How our senior libel judge stamps on free speech – all over the world | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian . Trafigura’s super-injunction is weird for lots of reasons. But the strangest fact is this: it has nothing to do with the Honourable Mr Justice Eady. The company’s lawyers injuncted the
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I do not apologise for the fact that what follows is complicated – tackling Barclays won’t be easy. Equity or law? If we are to tackle the abuse that Barclays Bank, and no doubt others, are perpetrating as a result of their structured finance activities that have given rise to massive taxation savings then there
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