Left Foot Forward reports: An ICM poll for the Electoral Reform Society shows that voters want a switch to the Alternative Vote (AV) system by
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Zero-ten is dead!
This is from the Guernsey Press and such is its importance I make the rare case of copying almost in its entirety and trust they
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Over at TJN
TJN has been busy blogging: UK uncut: bigger tax protests planned on Dec 18th Why fruit and nut sticks in the throat A confused economy:
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Nice question of the morning
I guess this is the sort of thing you hear at Yale, but one of the amusing questions of this morning was “what does a
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Who is or are the “tax Taliban”?
It’s reported: Anthony Travers, chairman of Cayman Finance, has criticised UK politicians and a group of activists he calls the “Tax Taliban.” Who are the
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What a General Anti-avoidance Principle might look like
This amendment to the 2009 Finance Bill was tabled for discussion last July by the Lib Dems: ‘(1) If, when determining the liability of a
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The General Anti-avoidance Principle debate
I have had no time to comment on responses to the announcement of a review on a possible GAAR (or General Anti-avoidance Principle as I’d
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Microfinance – corrupted by the DFIs?
As the FT reports this morning: The microfinance industry has been accused of “sucking blood from the poor” by the prime minister of Bangladesh as
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Banking is different
Adair Turner has an article in the FT this morning. It’s clearly an attempt to justify his decision to appoint PWC to investigate the RBS
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