A Bloomberg editorial today says: Switzerland’s bank secrecy laws and anonymous numbered accounts have a long and shameful history: They have been used to help
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EU to come down very hard on the UK – Swiss tax deal
Europolitics has reported today: The European Commission is planning to attack the tax agreements concluded by Switzerland with Germany and the United Kingdom, on 25
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George Monbiot attacks advertising – as I do in the Courageous State
George Monbiot wrote this today in the Guardian: The power and pervasiveness of advertising helps to explain, I believe, the remarkable figure I stumbled across
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Jersey plans to use its ‘rainy day’ fund as it slips towards inevitable bankruptcy
I have long forecast that as a result of continuing financial deficts arising from Jersy’s decision to impose a 0% tax rate on companies it would eventually
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It is possible to have a flat tax, or to have democracy, but not both
I seem to have reignited some debate on flat taxes this morning, so let me mention this old theme of mine in a little more detail. Back
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The US demands tax justice for its Swiss tax evaders: the UK settles for 30 pieces of silver
The UK has signed a tax haven deal with Switzerland it won’t even come near to raising the money claimed for it, whilst perpetuating bank secrecy. So says the
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The Vatican’s got it: why hasn’t St Paul’s?
As the Guardian reports this morning: If Vatican cardinals have yet to join the Occupy Wall Street protesters, a document released by the Holy See calling
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Through the eyes of Thomas
It’s half term, so my son Thomas set out to use his time creatively, drawing a cartoon of his father talking at #occupylondon on Sunday:
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Cameron’s opponents aren’t just anti-EU, most are also pro-flat tax – and that’s all about making the rich richer
Cameron faced his backbenchers yesterday on the EU, and lost. But the EU was not the whole reason for this. Polly Toynbee had what was, without
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