This is Newsnight last not. I was in the report 20 minutes in. Good for Giels Fraser for saying he’s proud to pay tax. As
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This is a new review of my book, The Courageous State from counterfire.org. I hope they’ll forgive me reproducing it: “The banking crisis of 2008 should have
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From the Telegraph web site yesterday: lousy quality, via Skype:

Bono and Jimmy Carr have both in their time been revealed as tax avoiders. But there’s a big difference. Jimmy Carr has said he was
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What did David Cameron do by saying Jimmy Carr’s tax arrangements were immoral? I suggest there were two things that changed, maybe for good. First,
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I’ve been asked what tax avoidance is. HM Revenue and Customs has suggested that tax avoidance is identified by “transactions or arrangements which have little
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David Cameron says tax is a moral issue. Which is right, of course. But take three questions Cameron should answer if this is the case.
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I received the following press release today. I think it’s worth noting in full: A new website launches today calling for think tanks and public policy campaigns
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Jersey is at the heart of the latest tax avoidance scandals in the UK, almost univitably. Of course they just shrug it off and say it’s
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