Thanks to Jo Haynes for sending me the Royal Mint’s accounts for 2011-12. Note 2B on sales is as follows: Now of course the Mint
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I’ve long defined tax compliance as seeking to pay the right amount of tax (but no more) in the right place at the right time where
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As Larry Elliott has noted in the Guardian within the last hour, referring to statistics out this morning: In the first three months of 2012,
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As the Telegraph reported this morning: HM Revenue & Customs has been handing out hundreds of thousands of pounds a year in the little-known bounty payments
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The FT’s reported this morning: The Olympics is creating a “ghost town” effect in central London as visitors who would normally flock to the capital’s shops, hotels
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The FT carries this headline this morning: HSBC says it’s “shameful, embarrassing and very painful” that it has had to do this. The reality is though that this is
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“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship,  the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least,  to neglect persons of poor and
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Having had a ‘secrecy jurisdiction of the day’ yesterday I thought it worth continuing the theme, with an Olympic twist since I, amongst many others,
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