Chartered accountant Richard Lupson-Darnell has written to his MP about the proposed cuts at HMRC and their impact on  the tax gap. I commend his
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  That got your attention. And it isn’t true. I am in fact referring to  a website with the above name. The web site has
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Bloomberg note: The Vatican has yet to formally commit to financial transparency, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said one week after Italian magistrates
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You know what accountants are like. “Free markets work.” “Stop government interference.” “Cut regulation.” “Leave the market to get on with it.” Blah, blah, blah.
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Frances O’Grady, deputy general secretary of the TUC and a person for whom I have a lot of admiration was on form at the Labour
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I presented the new report I have written for a range of NGOs entitled ‘Investment for Development: Derailed to Tax Havens’ in Bergen last evening.
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The above comment has just been made by a senior government official at the Task Force conference in Bergen. How right he is. And he
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Even some Tories are beginning to realise how mad the cuts they are proposing are: Liam Fox, the defence secretary, has launched a big assault
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I spoke at the launch of a new report I have written last evening in Bergen, Norway. The report is entitled ‘Investments for Development: Derailed
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