The FT has reported that: Britain’s big energy companies should be forced to open their books to show separately how much profit they make from
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These are my links for August 17th: FT.com / Comment & analysis / Editorial comment – Investment banks are bad taxpayers – The FT said
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There’s been a lot written about Merrill Lynch International (MLI), but it seems no one has bothered to actually analyse the accounts that include the
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These are my links for August 17th: Ruth Sunderland: Why subsidise our shameless City when the north deserves a break? | Business | The Observer
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The following letter in the Jersey Evening Post is too good not to reproduce. I do so with permission of the author: From Jean Andersson.
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Tax compliance is paying the right amount of tax (but no more) in the right place at the right time where right means that the
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These are my links for August 15th: Merrill's Luck Proves Unlucky For Britain – Forbes.com – This will come back to haunt Merrill Lynch and
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I mentioned yesterday that the IFS did not appear to think that wealth was a basis for charging tax. Now I know why. This is
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It’s odd how ordinary house buyers can’t get tax relief for mortgages (and nor should they) but banks can: Merrill Lynch is unlikely to pay
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