The Guardian reports: Sir Philip Green, the retail billionaire and efficiency adviser to the government, is to become the target of a nationwide campaign by
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Submission on the Trade White Paper from the Dept for Business, Innovation and Skills
BIS — the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills — issued a white paper on trade in November. I made a submission yesterday, saying (in
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What Osborne really said
I suppose I should acknowledge that George Osborne delivered an autumn statement today. I reproduce some of it below and to help interpretation add my
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M & S, knickers and all that updated
I have produced an updated version of may paper on M & S’s accounts entitled (with tongue somewhat in cheek) “Knickers to Tax” taking into
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Sorting out the twisted knickers: questions arising from Marks & Spencer’s tax
It would be easy to say, as some have, that the issues I have raised on Marks & Spencer’s accounts are just a smoke screen.
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Time to focus on the Big 4 – and their massive negligent in the banking crisis
The following is by Paul Cotteril and first appeared on Liberal Conspiracy and is reproduced here with permission: The leftie blogosphere has been somewhat taken
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Tax protests move on …. to Top Shop
I gather a Top Shop store in the West End has been occupied by tax protestors. A report says: "Philip Green, national thief, pay your
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PWC, supporting the pretence that tax is paid when it isn’t
I have already mentioned the new Action Aid report on SAB Miller and it’s tax affairs . The Tax Justice Network has also covered this
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Ireland R.I.P.
It’s very hard to work out what the politicians in Ireland and elsewhere thought they were doing signing the Irish bail out deal this weekend.
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