HMRC has just announced that closing the tax gap is  its lead priority. But can we get beyond the endless game of cat and mouse
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Pete Bunting, Assistant General secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and I had a fun time giving evidence before the Northern Ireland Affairs
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Rumour I’m hearing from Irish journalists and others is that the Irish government is saying they’ll quit the Euro rather than give up 12.5% tax.
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I am giving evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee of the House of Commons this afternoon. The subject under discussion is the proposal that
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From Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian: Labour needs to rethink its stance on the coalition’s deficit-cutting mania, insisting that the manner, timing and scale of
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As the FT notes: Political opposition to the US Federal Reserve’s new $600bn round of quantitative easing — nicknamed QE2 — is becoming a push
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As the FT notes: UBS, the world’s second biggest wealth manager by assets, said that recent tax changes affecting Swiss bank secrecy would enable foreign
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Traffic on this blog continues to grow at an amazing rate. Yesterday was the first day with 9,000 reads. Thank you. It was only in
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This comes from the Real World Economics Review Blog. It is a  map showing one zip code on Chicago’s South West Side, 60629. This neighbourhood
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