Some would like to think Labour is having a bad weekend. If the papers were to be believed Ed Miliband is a disaster, when Labour
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Do you remember when they said the Liechtenstein deal wouldn’t work?
When the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility was first offered by H M Revenue & Customs the tax profession said it wouldn’t rasie anything like the amount of money the
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The faith-based economics of deficit reduction
Dean Baker has a great article in the Guardian this morning under the above title. As he concludes: [W]e don’t have a coherent story as
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Jersey has failed its OECD peer review
Rumour reaches me that Jersey has failed its OECD peer review. The OECD says of the peer review process that: The international fight against cross-border tax evasion
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The US gets tough on tax evasion, unlike the UK
As the FT notes this morning: Banks and foreign governments are mounting an increasingly desperate push against a sweeping US tax law that will force
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Tel Le Sueur, Tel Le Sueur, riding through the glen…
…gives to the rich, robs from the poor Tel Le Sueur, Tel Le Sueur, Tel Le Sueur! Robin Hood (in reverse) strikes Jersey again. A fortnight
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You can’t get an ought from an is – but Cameron’s trying to do just that
The claim you can’t ‘get an ought from an is’ can be explained like this: In meta-ethics, the is-ought problem was articulated by David Hume, who noted that
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From a Quaker Bank to Bob Diamond – what happened to Barclays?
I was at the Norwich Meeting House of the Quakers this morning. It’ s a lovely building, and a good meeting. Outside there’s a memorial
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TJN USA has a new website
Tax Justice USA is already a force to be reckoned with in Washington, and it’s been going from strength to strength. Thanks to the tireless
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