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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Jersey protested too
Tax protestors did a great job in the UK at the weekend. But they weren’t alone. Protests also took place in Jersey, where as the
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Polly on tax protests
Polly Toynbee was at the tax justice protests in Oxford street on Saturday. Good for her! As she said in the Guardian today: These brilliant
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Why tackling tax avoidance is the right thing to do
An American judge once said “Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.” He was right. Tax is central to our way of
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Swallows and all that
Yes, I know all that I and others say about taking figures in isolation and extrapolating from them. But new car sales down 11.5% on
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Getting rid of PFI for good
The new Finance for the Future report ‘Green quantitative easing’ argues for a very different form of quantitative easing to be used in future to
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