Since it’s now clear that the meeting I attended at which HMRC director Judith Knott spoke yesterday was not covered by the Chatham House Rule
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For the record: Meetings, blogging and the Chatham House Rule
I admit I was pretty annoyed yesterday to find that I had been accused of breaking the Chatham House rule when speaking at and blogging
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HMRC don’t want to be quoted
I mentioned in two blogs earlier today that I spoke at an event at the Social Market Foundation this morning. In one of those blogs I referred
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The world of corporate tax has changed in the last eight years
Another speaker at the Social Market Foundation this morning was Vanessa Houlder of the FT. One of her interesting comments is that in the ast
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So much for an objective H M Revenue & Customs
I gave a presentation at the Social Market Foundation this morning. Xxxxxx Xxxxx was there. She is the Director of xxxxxxxxxxx at HM Revenue &
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Money laundering – care of Coutts
It’s good news that Coutts – part of RBS – is being fined £8.75 million for failures in its money laundering systems. I welcome that.
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The 5 Rs of tax
On the Moral Maze last week I was asked why I thought we should tax. I was going to offer five reasons, but by the
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A little sunshine always helps
What’s got David Cameron into yet another mess? The simple absence of sunshine on a big pile of cash, that’s what. Whenever people think they
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Could a new consensus emerge on corporate taxes?
Recently TJN writers were on the LSE blog explaining the economic folly of corporate tax cuts. For example: “British corporations are awash with cash: according to
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