I found an article I wrote for Accountancy Age in 1997 yesterday. I was a columnist for them at the time (this writing lark goes
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The poverty of Osborne’s economic thinking
The FT has reported that: George Osborne will next week announce plans to put into law a promise to balance Britain’s underlying budget deficit by
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Another HMRC failing is their lack of willing to enforce the minimum wage
One of the tasks entrusted to HM Revenue & Customs is enforcement of the minimum wage. Unfortunately they don’t do it well. As the Guardian reports:
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The November Taxcast
The November 2014 Tax Justice Network Podcast is out: ‘You can lie and you can steal from us again but this time we’ll know who
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‘Taxing across Borders’: An academic milestone
I wrote recently of the problem many have faced in estimating the losses arising from illicit financial flows through tax havens. As a result I
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Make pension funds work for the UK
The FT ran a story a day or so ago with the headline: PM accused of overlooking potential UK pension fund investment To give a
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HMRC’s sinking performance
HMRC has sacked thousands of its staff in the last year. All of them did invaluable work collecting the tax that might prevent austerity, preserve
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The wrong people have the money and we need to put that right
David Cameron has said all the signs of another global crash exist. I think he is right: they do. But from then on he and
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Institutional Investors Back Global Tax Reform Modernisation and Transparency
I think I am fit enough to share press releases I like. This one is from the UK based Local Authority Pension Fund Forum, issued
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