The UK is wedded to the class system, and so still awards new year honours of varying classes, indicating your rank in society. Amongst recipients
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Polly Toynbee has a new year’s wish in the Guardian today. Amongst them this: ¬? Create a standing tax commission to expose who pays what
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I’ve mentioned Simon Caulkin’s writing here before. I will again. In considering the role of the heretic challenging the status quo with a truth that
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I’ve found out who some of the sad people who read tax blogs rather than celebrate Christmas are. They’re the staff of the Center for
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I mentioned recently that Statoil was one of the most ethical companies. It’s disappointing to note therefore that it has settled fines of $21 million
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Just before Christmas I asked where all the accountants were in declaiming the government’s decision not to pursue corruption investigations at BAE. I still haven’t
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The Sunday Times broke the news on Sunday that: [HM Revenue & Customs] investigators have raided the homes of executives at a top City accountancy
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The lat time the FTSE 100 index ended the year over 6,000 points and upbeat was 1999. Within months the tears began. Yesterday it was
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Back to work (at least for an hour so) and so I had a quick look at the blog stats for the last few days.
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