It must be triples all round in the Isle of Man as Moody’s, the debt rating  agency, issue an announcement that says: London, 11 November
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Christian Aid has issued a new report called “Shifting sands: tax, transparency and multinational companies”. As they say: In January 2009, Christian Aid launched a
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Gillian Tett argues in the Ft today that: Pity the Irish. In the past 18 months, Dublin has repeatedly unveiled commendably bold measures to fight
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I know, I said I would not comment any more on Martin Durkin’s appalling documentary on Channel 4 last night, but one, perhaps last, issue
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A last comment on Durkin’s quite mad programme. We heard two arguments. The first was that only the private sector generates wealth. Ah, so education
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More wonders from Durkin. The amount of benefit paid in the UK must be cut massively. Then: Low taxes in Hong Kong did for them
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I’m watching the Channel 4 documentary by Martin Durkin on what he claims is wrong with the state. The programme is so mad it is
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The following is by Christine Clough of the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development and was on their blog today and is reproduced
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The Mirrlees report claims — it was trumpeted from the platform at yesterday’s launch — that it was ‘neutral’. It did not seek to raise
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