A couple of days ago I highlighted a report from Cayman about a meeting of offshore lawyers where it seemed there was widespread agreement that  the system of tax information exchange
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I was asked what was wrong with the UK economy last night, with the express requirement that I make it simple. My questioner liked the
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I was asked yesterday for some links on the issue of a passport tax; that is a system where UK citizens should pay tax on
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Thirty years on it’s the same song: The one in ten young people unemployed – a statistical reminder of a Tory world that does not
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The Misery Index is back in fashion. It’s simply the aggregate of the inflation and unemployment rates, and I am the first to say that is a
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On Saturday, Jeffrey Sachs, who spoke at the 2011 Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development Conference earlier this month, made an impassioned impromptu speech at
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From Christian Aid: Please watch and then visit EndTaxHavenSecrecy.org to take action today. Join Christian Aid and its partners (including Tax Research UK)  in calling to demand tax
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Cayman News Service has blown the lid on one of the biggest lies of recent years about tax havens / secrecy jurisdiction.  It’s been claimed since 2009 that tax information
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Tax Journal has just published a lengthy article on the Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index which opens with the following sentence: The United Kingdom would ‘easily’ take
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