I note the Telegraph is reporting that Tories are now doubting HMRC’s tax gap data: Michael Fallon, a senior member of the Commons’ Treasury Select
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HM Revenue & Customs have published the 2010 version of the tax gap. It’s three months earlier than last year’s version and please don’t for
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  There’s an excellent article here from India, showing that some realise that what the Tax Justice Network is arguing is about creating economic justice
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As AccountingWEB notes: The Financial Reporting Council has criticised the Big Four for lack of ‘professional scepticism’ and failure to meet ethical standards in its
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I’ve just mentioned I spoke at the TUC this week — twice, actually. I’ve already posted what I said the first time. The second was
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I spoke at the TUC this week. So did Mervyn King. He got more press! No surprise there then. But apart from endorsing arguments for
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My Jersey correspondent whose comments I’ve just posted concluded his mail saying: Don’t know if you’ve ever come across a Canadian songwriter called Bruce Cockburn,
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As one of my Jersey correspondents has told me this morning: The States have been debating their spending plan. The "tax and spend" lobby is
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From the FT this morning: Poverty among the working-age population of the US rose to the highest level for almost 50 years in 2009, as
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