I have just referred to the fact that I have seen a copy of the draft EU Transparency Directive and I have published its suggested changes relating
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I have seen a copy of the proposed revisions to the EU’s Transparency Directive. The content relating to country-by-country reporting is as follows: Reporting of payments to governments
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My wife was preparing a tutorial / seminar on anxiety yesterday (she’s a GP) and drew my attention to the Guidelines in Practice from NICE (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence)
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Accountancy Age reported this today: The UK has the second lowest corporate tax burdens in the G8, research has shown. A study by UHY Hacker Young,
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Sarah Montague was asking on the BBC this morning why George Osborne hadn’t cut corproate tax rates more. On Saturday on PM and interviewer (sorry, can’t remember
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Phillip Blond is one of those annoying people (like Maurice Glasman really, and I know them both). He can say some really interesting things sometimes
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I wrote the following for CIPFA’s Public Finance blog last week and now share it here: “A decade ago almost no one had ever heard of Tobin
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This image comes from the Hindustan Times. I’m reproducing it shows juts how important the British Overseas Territories are to the City of London and
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The tax gap has been a big issue over the last few years. From being virtually unrecognised at the time I wrote The Missing Billions
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