As the Guardian notes: Britain’s coalition government clocked up a record trade deficit in its first three months in office, according to official figures released
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The OECD has issued new growth forecasts. Or to put it another way — it says growth is disappearing fast. So George Osborne — who
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Filling the job of the head of the so called independent Office for Budget Responsibility was always going to be a nightmare — because the
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A tax inspector talked about what it’s really like in HMRC on the Today programme this morning. Listen again here.

Ministers and the small-state right want us to think the cuts programme will mainly bear down on what they see as feather-bedded public servants, but
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In a welcome decision India’s courts have decided that the Indian tax authority does have the right to demand tax from Vodafone that it says
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Goldman Sachs are to be fined £20m by the  UK’s Financial Services Authority  for their failure to disclose to the FSA that they were being
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From the FT: Government officials are considering a plan to make graduates who become big earners pay a premium for their education as the coalition
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The FT notes: President Barack Obama on Wednesday took Republicans to task over their economic “values” as he promotes an $180bn package of proposals to
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