As the FT reports this morning: Christopher Flowers, the veteran private equity investor, has moved to London from the US, seeing a shift in the
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The OECD view on country-by-country reporting entirely misses the point
Pascal Saint-Amans, head of tax at the OECD spoke on the subject of country-by-country reporting to a French parliamentary enquiry recently. This is the Google translation
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Can I tell the difference between the the objective and the subjective?
Philip Booth of the Institute of Economic Affairs asked me the above question during debate at the event we were both speaking at this lunchtime
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Should tax be more taxing? My talk at the RSA today
I spoke at the RSA this lunchtime. I gather a video of the event will be available on line. The theme was ‘Should Tax Be
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Balls has beaten Osborne – and it’s the Telegraph saying it
This is reported in this morning’s Daily Telegraph: There can be no ifs or buts. In November 2010 the Chancellor said: “When we came into office Britain
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Paul Mason on George Osborne’s parallel universe
This is just too good not to share. It’s by the BBC’s Paul Mason, today: There’s a parallel universe I always go back to when
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Eclipse 35 eclipsed
What else can I say but that I am delighted that the Eclipse 35 tax avoidance scheme was successfully blocked by HMRC. The Independent give the low
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Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index to be used by Council of Europe to criticise Switzerland.
Swissinfo is as busy as ever today, reporting this morning that: Swiss banking secrecy faces renewed attack from members of the Council of Europe on
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Double dip recession proves Osborne wrong
The UK is on double dip recession. Osborne offered us his vision two year ago. It was of “expansionary fiscal contraction”. His argument was that
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