I’m told that someone from the Chartered Institute of Tax has been claiming today on BBC News 24 that companies have a duty to their
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Why inequality matters – a free ebook
A free download e-book based on the best selling Sprit Level is now available on the My Fair London web site. It’s been produced in association with CLASS – the Centre
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What the Starbucks tax expose means for ordinary companies
When tax avoidance debate is about Google, Facebook and Apple it can be argued that the UK has no equivalent companies so that there is
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Starbucks: brewing up more than coffee when it comes to tax avoidance
Last week’s big tax story was Facebook. It’s a new week, it’s time for a new story, and a new US company that’s willing to play the
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On pot plants, the economic multiplier and why George Osborne is just wrong
I was talking to two decidedly non-economists yesterday. The subject was tweeting. They wanted to know why I was tweeting about economics. The question was “has anything happened
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Illuminating parliament
Transfer pricing may appear mundane but the fact is that the wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people is at stake
With commendable openness, the UN Tax Committee (who have long had the support of the Tax Justice Network) has published a letter that its head of
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How far do you have to go to find corruption? 10 Downing Street, I’d say
As the FT reports tonight: Senior Conservatives are plotting an audacious “cash-for-seats” offer to Nick Clegg, where the Liberal Democrat leader would back a Conservative-friendly
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In praise of Occupy St Paul’s
As the Guardian reports tonight: The traditional solemnity of St Paul’s Sunday evensong was disrupted when four members of the Occupy London movement, which camped
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