This budget was notable in that for the first time that I can recall we saw the Treasury subscribe to the Laffer curve. As has
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Vanessa Houlder of the FT made an interesting comment at the seminar we both spoke at earlier this week. She noted George Osborne’s unexpected corporation
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As the Guardian reports: UK peers are urging the UK government to drop its commitment to spend 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) on aid, arguing
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I got this email last night from the World Bank: The first global study of financial disclosure laws and practices, “Public Office, Private Interests: Accountability  through
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I wrote the following article for Taxsutra in India a week or so ago after it was announced India was to have a comprehensive general anti-avoidance rule. It pretty
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Please just listen to this BBC report. This is the 1% at work. This is the fear that libertarians engender.

Since it’s now clear that the meeting I attended at which HMRC director Judith Knott spoke yesterday was not covered by the Chatham House Rule
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I admit I was pretty annoyed yesterday to find that I had been accused of breaking the Chatham House rule when speaking at and blogging
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I mentioned in two blogs earlier today that I spoke at an event at the Social Market Foundation this morning. In one of those blogs I referred
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