Thanks to those who have enquired as to whether I am all right as a result of the blog being silent for four days –
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Nick Clegg wants to tax wealth. So do I. There's no other way to reduce wealth inequality in this country, and that wealth inequality is
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The August Taxcast is out. In this month’s Taxcast: Capital flight in Africa and now in Europe, Olympian Usain Bolt fails to champion his tax affairs
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The FT carries news this morning that the Republicans want to investigate a return to the gold standard. That’s the arrangement where a countries currency
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This comes from this morning’s Independent: The United Nations, aid agencies and the British Government have lined up to attack the world’s largest commodities trading
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In the UK those of us with concern on tax and development have good reason to be pleased this morning. But there’s also good news from
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According to the FT this morning: Sir Malcolm Bruce [has] called on ministers to require British companies to report how much they earned in each
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The FT’s reported this morning on the new report from the House of Commons International Development Committee on tax and developing countries, noting: Ministers are being
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The House of Commons International Development Committee has published a report today on tax in developing countries. Amongst the issues they reported on was country-by-country reporting. Having
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