It’s oft repeated here by friends of tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions that the world I describe and the world Nick Shaxson describes is out
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The 50 p tax rate is raising revenue – as predicted
As Duncan Weldon notes on the Guardian blog: The latest public sector borrowing figures have revealed an unexpectedly large surplus for January 2011. The Treasury
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Charge for the privilege of limited liability
This letter was in the Guardian this morning. It is from the senior partner of a firm of London lawyers employing more than 150 staff:
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Who said tax was easy? Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian, and tax
The Guardian has mean a major critic of tax abuse in the UK. And it’s own tax affairs have been criticised, sometimes by me, but
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Tackling tax evasion
The Guardian, amongst others, reports HMRC’s plan to get tough on pesistent tax evaders, and at the same time notes my concern about the scheme.
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Manifesto for Tax Justice
I wrote a document with the above title last November. It’s here. In two sides and a pile of references I seek to say what
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Facing Paxman – and why this corporation tax reform is so important
It’s one of the oddities of the work that I do that I’ve had to learn to manage the media over the last few years.
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As the Middle East strives for freedom we move to rule by an elite
Isn’t it odd? The Middle East is seeing mass uprisings to demand work, democracy, accountability, the end of elites, the prevention of economic abuse by
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Turning Barclays into a library
UK Uncut at work. If they keep going like this they’ll turn civil disobedience into an art form. And that would be a massive achievement
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