Polly Toynbee’s written on the issue of cuts at HMRC, which I have addressed so often. As she says today: After the Institute for Fiscal
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A great article under the above title from Paul Segal concludes: Kenneth Rogoff has argued that we should not worry about the effects of cuts
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A new staff paper from the IMF looks at the issue of “Long-Term Trends in Public Finances in the G-7 Economies”. There is content I
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The Irish Times notes: About 20 multinational companies have relocated their corporate headquarters to Ireland over the past year because they are able to pay
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Robert Peston is an annoying  television presenter , although living proof that competence can overcome a poor TV delivery. But on occasion he delivers the
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Alistair Darling says, according to the FT, of his banker’s bonus tax: “I think it will be a one-off thing because, frankly, the very people
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I have blogged, quite often of late, on the bullying abuse of the right wing blogosphere. Now it’s public. Guido Fawkes — a man who
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August is supposedly the quiet month of the year. The month when in the UK at least there is no news. And when people shut
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Given the importance of the recent US law requiring country-by-country and project-by-project reporting by extractive companies listed on the SEC, Revenue Watch has translated it
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