That’s the title of my new blog at Forbes. Available here.
How come HMRC has 500,000 names of tax evaders but there’s been no action?
There has been some publicity over the last few days about H M Revenue & Customs having secured the names of 500,000 people in this country
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Why don’t ministers believe in transparency, accountability and supplying information to ensure free markets work?
There’s been widespread reporting that the requirement for small limited companies to prepare accounts is to be abolished, led by an EU initiative. As AccountingWEB notes:
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How much of Bill Gates’ philanthropy is supported by Microsoft’s tax planning?
Bill Gates likes to be thought of as a great philanthropist. He’s referred to as such, so I guess he’s happy about it. And in some
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Microsoft’s tax under scrutiny
The FT has reported this morning, in what appears to be an exclusive, that: US securities regulators prodded Microsoft earlier this year into disclosing details
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Bruce Cockburn – “Call it Democracy” – maybe the only song ever about the IMF
A little note about the IMF – to be read very soon after you hear George Osborne on the same subject
The following comes from the SturdyBlog by Alex Andreou. Alex is not a professional economist any more. He’s now an actor, so no doubt the Tories
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Off the deep end
So true: This gets at the heart of the current pundit problem. If you say that one of our two major parties has gone completely
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Number 10 rattled, so now they’re calling in the IMF
From the First Post Daily: Tory bloggers, tweeters and old-fashioned news print columns today swallowed the line put out by Downing Street yesterday that the
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