Bloomberg reports: The 15 biggest banks operating in the U.K. have adopted a government code of practice on reducing tax avoidance, Deputy Prime Minister Nick
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Northern Ireland corporation tax move slammed
I was on Radio Ulster this morning. The following article on the local BBC web site has resulted: A leading tax expert has said that
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Tell me why this makes sense
The world’s economies are creaking. Its bank are failing. Countries are collapsing. So what sense is there in this?: And what happens when these markets
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False economy
A new web site has been launched called ‘False Economy’. As they say on their home page, False Economy is for everyone concerned about the
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What’s chiselling away at poor countries’ tax revenues (and the UK’s too)?
Award winning Private Eye journalist and former tax inspector Richard Brooks (who is behind the Vodafone tax story, and very much more that is well
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What is business going to invest in – and why?
The whole premise of he government’s economic policy is that we’re going to grow out of recession and that business is going to rush in
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The Irish bail out can’t work because we’re suffering systemic failure
Reports in all newspapers this morning suggest that the Irish bail out has not worked: the markets have reacted without enthusiasm and the talk is,
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Sack him
As the Guardian reports: Prince Andrew launched a scathing attack on British anticorruption investigators, journalists and the French during an "astonishingly candid" performance at an
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This isn’t just an EU problem
The FT reports: Billions of euros of EU funds to promote growth in Europe’s rundown regions are lying idle because cash-strapped national governments cannot find
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