Paul Krugman is a man I admire. Dan Mitchell isn’t. I’ve never met Krugman. I have met Mitchell and let’s be as polite as I
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From the excellent report “Unfair Advantage: The Business Case Against Overseas Tax Havens” produced by a new US group called  Business and Investors Against Tax
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From this morning’s Guardian: It is time to organise a broad movement of active resistance to the Con-Dem government’s budget intentions. They plan the most
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My friend and occasional co-author Prof George Irvin has written an excellent blog for euoobserver.com under the above title. As he says in his introduction:
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The Guardian reports:   The threat of a double-dip recession intensified today after it emerged that Britain’s powerhouse services sector saw its growth stall last
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It has become very fashionable to argue that there is no corporate tax gap. The quite absurd claim that Deloitte proved there was none of
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The World Bank has issued a new paper providing measures for the size of the “shadow” economy in 162 countries. The UK is one of
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The International Accounting Standards Board discussion paper on the Extractive Industry — on which the comment period has just closed — included a whole chapter
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