The FT reports that: Most US corporate leaders believe chief executives are overpaid and do not provide value for money for their companies, according to
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Just imagine – my pre-budget speech
I was at a party yesterday. I was challenged by an intelligent person I’d never met before but with whom I’d spent some time discussing
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Northern Rock – the Granite saga continues in the Commons
The Evening Standard in London carried this report last week on the questioning of senior executives of the Financial Services Authority by the House of
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Tax cuts are designed to increase the poverty gap
The New York Times reports: New data shows that after adjusting for inflation, 95 percent of Americans reported smaller incomes to the tax man in
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Private banking admits the truth about its past
I loved this on Reuters: GENEVA (Reuters) – Increasing demands from tax authorities around the world are challenging traditional private bankers while opening opportunities for
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Now Brown’s abandoned principle on tax, what next?
Polly Toynbee has one answer: What happened this week accelerates the need for a Turner-type inquiry into tax. Choices need to be aired so people
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The earth isn’t flat
Earlier this year, the U.S. Republican Candidate John McCain repeated a curious myth, often repeated in U.S. political debate, saying: Tax cuts, starting with Kennedy,
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Labour in tatters
I couldn’t have put this better, so I won’t try. It’s by Jenni Russell in the Guardian: Within hours of last week’s announcement of audacious
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Domicile – can I put the numbers right, please?
Accountancy Age has reported that HMRC: is to roll out funding to Phd students and other research experts as part of a new plan to
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