The BBC have reported: HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has trumpeted three victories in the courts last month against complex tax avoidance schemes. The Revenue
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Does the government have any idea what the NHS is about?
The BBC’s reported: High-profile NHS hospitals in England are to be encouraged by the government to set up profit-making branches abroad to help fund services
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Unsustainable cuts in spending
Larry Summers, writing in the FT this morning has noted why it is inevitable that state spending will rise in the future. He says there are four reasons for
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The Tax Justice Network Intertax list – an apology
The Tax Justice Network has just put the following note on its blog: We would like to apologise to our Intertax subscribers – and others –
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KPMG’s failed moral compass
The FT carries a feature on Simon Collins, the new boss of KPMG in the UK this morning. It’s a rambling piece of corporate puffery ending with some of
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CEO pay, tax cuts, accounting fraud and political corruption: an everyday tale of 2012
The Wall Street Journal has reported a new report by the US based Institute for Policy Studies. There argument, backed by analysis, is that the
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Italy’s “in a state of war against tax evasion”. HMRC just deny there’s an issue
As the Observer note, Italian PM Mario Monti said “We are in a state of war against tax evasion” on Friday. Here in the UK H M
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What is Cherie Blair up to?
The Mail has an article this morning on Cherie Blair. In itself that’s not news: the Mail is no fan of the Blairs. Nor am
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The OECD now agree with us: automatic information exchange from tax havens beats tax evasion
The following is reposted from the TJN blog, with permission: How do you spell it? In a telling sign of how the general line of
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