A tax accountant has commented on 38 Degrees Facebook page suggesting they misread the law when, working with Ethical Consumer, they began their campaign on the Olympics tax exemptions. You can
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One graph that reveals the failure of Osbornomics
The IMF staff report on the UK is revealing in many ways. It’s diagnosis is easy to summarise: they say Osborne has failed. But if
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IMF tells UK government to start spending hard, now
The IMF’s policy blog on the UK, published this afternoon has three policy recommendations. In many ways the third is the most obscurely worded and
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IMF says to Osborne stop PFI now
The IMF’s policy prescriptions for the UK need unpacking. Their second policy recommendation is not as clear as it could be. They say: Second, credit easing measures can boost demand. Credit
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What the IMF is really saying to George Osborne is do more quantitative easing because it isn’t causing inflation
It’s worth unpacking what the IMF is really saying to George Osborne in the blog I’ve just posted from them, here and here. Their first
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The IMF says it is now time for the UK government to proactively stimulate demand – or we’re going to hit the fan
I just got the heads up that the IMF is about to publish a media release that suggests the UK government now has a duty
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What’s the importance of the Olympics tax campaign?
38 Degrees and Ethical Consumer have been running a campaign to stop those taking part in the Olympics getting tax breaks in the UK. Those breaks are complex, especially
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What we really need is a tax on companies sitting on cash piles
I’ve long argued that big business is hoarding cash simply because it cannot think of anything to do with it. David Cay Johnston in the US shares
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Did Romney take advanatge of an offshore tax amnesty in 2009
The US Presidential election debate seems pretty much focused on Mitt Romney’s tax affairs, in no small art due to the excellent work of the Tax Justice Network’s Nick
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