We’ve been sent an important new paper by Itai Grinberg of Georgetown University Law Center, until recently a member of the Office of International Tax
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H M Revenue & Customs published their new business plan this morning. I got sent a copy by a friendly MP. They say their number
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The Treasury has released some very limited data for 2010-11 based on tax returns submitted which, they say, indicates the scale of tax avoidance they
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Foreign Policy magazine is pretty influential in the US and beyond. In its latest edition it reports: On April 17, U.S. taxpayers will grudgingly send
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A great editorial in the Guardian today echoing sentiments expressed here and at TJN last week: What do you do with an organisation that has correctly predicted
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The Guardian reports this morning that: The green deal, the government’s big policy initiative for fighting climate change, is supposed to plug one of Britain’s biggest
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Clement Attlee wrote this in 1920: Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes
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From Heather Stewart in the Observer this morning (a gift that just keeps on giving today): In the heady days before the credit crunch, the
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Amongst the few items in last month’s budget not, so far, subject to retrospective Tory regret about the incompetence in the thinking behind it was  the 2%
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