As Energy FM reports: The Lord Mayor of the City of London is visiting the Isle of Man today to learn more about the Island
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Clegg, tax, and missing the point
According to the Guardian (and I hope they’ll forgive me for borrowing this summary) Nick Clegg’s proposals on tax can be summarised as: Nick Clegg
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Time for Plan B
It seems to be a day to share stuff from Compass – but this is good too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RV_1_XHNZ-A Links are here. I contributed to Plan
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The reason for Labour’s economic woes
I agree with this by Howard Reed in White Flag Labour? At the time of writing, all Labour has to show for eighteen months of
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White Flag Labour
In response to the ongoing economic crisis and in particular the debate around what Labour’s response to the budget deficit should Compass has published a
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UK state debt is not £1 trillion – it is only £725 billion
Stories abound on the fact that the UK supposedly has state debt of £1 trillion for the first time. This however is not true. Over
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Would Romney’s tax haven activity be an issue of some of us hadn’t made it so?
Mitt Romney’s tax affairs are making headlines. And rightly so. For the second presidential election in a row tax havens are an issue – and
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In the interests of full disclosure
I make a point of trying to disclose conflicts of interest, sources of funding, potential bias and so on on this blog since you can
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The 10 Cs of an efficient tax system
An efficient taxation system has nine attributes with one over-riding characteristic to which they all contribute. An efficient tax system is: 1. Comprehensive — in other
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