The EU Parliament has voted by 283 votes to 278 votes for a resolution on development issues that called for: a new binding, global financial
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The IFS have spoken about the budget. As they say: The government expects public spending in total to be broadly flat in real terms over
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Labour’s tax and benefits strategy has closed the income gap, thinktank says | Politics | The Guardian . Everyone is focussing on the Institute for
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Budget 2010: Offshore tax haven crackdown ‘to raise £1.5bn’ | Business | guardian.co.uk . Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Chartered Certified
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FT.com / Columnists / John Kay – How to make money without trying. Read what John Kay has to say and weep for the damage
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The new UK penalties for offshore tax evasion give a massive boost to automatic information exchange, a Tax Justice Network demand. As the budget note
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There’s a great paper under the above title in the Romanian Journal of Economic Forecasting by Liviu Voinea and Flaviu Mihaescu. As they report: In
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But Britain has never been short of innovative companies, neither has it lacked world-class companies, such as GlaxoSmithKline and Rolls-Royce. The problem, exposed brutally over
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Public costs, private gain | Chris Edwards | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk . Chris Edwards is one of the foremost experts on the harm
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