The following is a parliamentary answer on tax paid in the UK by non-coms. Of course what it does not say is what tax was
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The Great British Corporate Tax Giveaway
The above title is also to be found in Forbes, where Lee Shepherd has written an article under that heading. She does three things in
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George Monbiot: unveiling the Tories promoting the next banking crisis
George Monbiot has another good article in the Guardian today, in which he argues: You think you’ve seen the worst of it; you haven’t. Last
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Inflation – up again – and yet we still don’t read read it right
As the BBC report: The UK Consumer Prices Index (CPI) annual inflation rate rose to 4% in January, up from 3.7% in December. Retail Prices
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Mubarak’s cash
There is enormous interest in where Mubarak’s cash might be hidden. I know that I and other members of the Task Force on Financial Integrity
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Tax Advisers Without Borders – an invitation
For some time the Tax Justice Network has been mooting the idea of creating a new organisation dedicated to assisting the governments of low-income countries
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Brendan Barber on the Big Society
I like Brendan Barber. He is a compassionate human being. So when he said this today about David Cameron’s relaunch of the Big Society (amazing
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Territorial tax – the new threat to our tax base
I haven’t done a straight talk to camera for some time on this blog. However the issue of territorial taxation appears to be becoming one
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If Toby Young wants a debate on tax avoidance, let’s have one
Toby Young is animated on the Telegraph blog this morning. It seems that my blog about his review of Nick Shaxson’s book ‘Treasure Islands” got
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