2012 January 04

Barclays, tax and the cost of fiddling

Posted on January 4 2012

Barclays has been a long term target of those of us concerned with tax justice, as you will find by searching them on this blog. Our aim has
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Democracy has in all but name already gone in Hungary – where next in the EU?

Posted on January 4 2012

Paul Krugman posted this on his blog two days ago. I reproduce it as he clearly wants to give maximum coverage to the issue, as do I:
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No wonder HMRC feel outnumbered

Posted on January 4 2012

HMRC issued their stuff with 20 rebuttals of the allegations made by the Parliamentary Accounts Committee before Christmas. I got sent a copy. I was fascinated by one comment: 17. HMRC have very
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No one should be talking benefit reform until they also talk full employment

Posted on January 4 2012

The IFS has reported today, according to the Guardian, that: A couple with two children will be £1,250 a year worse off by 2015 as
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8

Video: thoughts on 2012

Posted on January 4 2012

I made this video yesterday in one take and in haste. The quality is not great, being made too early in the morning and without
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Labour, benefits and what Liam Byrne did not say about the subsidy to corporate profits

Posted on January 4 2012

I spent almost all day yesterday in meetings and so had little time to comment or blog. As such I did not refer to Liam Byrne’s announcement
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