A valuable diagram has been put on line regarding the effective tax rates students will suffer as a result of student loan repayments. The graphs
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Country-by-country reporting at Yale
I am in the US to talk about country-by-country reporting at Yale University. The slides I’ll be using are here. As I say in them:
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HSBC: turning the proverbial?
As the FT notes: HSBC continued to act for funds that fed money into Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme in spite of repeated warning from the
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Student loans – we don’t need them and we can afford to educate
Sometimes you need to take a deep breath and stand back from an issue to understand it. Student loans are one such issue. The reality
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The ConDems massively over-selling some routine tax avoidance measures
Despite being in the US I have had several calls today from journalists on yesterday’s government announcement on tackling tax avoidance. I have already commented
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Sometimes a picture does say more about the cuts
It’s said a picture says a thousand words. I admit I’m not too good at pictures but knock out thousands of words. This though is
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Taming the Vampire Squid: Take back our banks
From the New Economics Foundation.As they say: Portraying investment banks as a giant vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, a new animation
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The demand for tax justice
There seem to be a load of new people following this blog (thanks!). For their sake I’m highlighting a few older blogs that may be
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Coalition makes noises on tax avoidance
I gather the UK government announced yesterday that: The Exchequer Secretary has asked Graham Aaronson QC to lead a study into a General Anti Avoidance
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