Another speaker at the Social Market Foundation this morning was Vanessa Houlder of the FT. One of her interesting comments is that in the ast
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I gave a presentation at the Social Market Foundation this morning. Xxxxxx Xxxxx was there. She is the Director of xxxxxxxxxxx at HM Revenue &
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It’s good news that Coutts – part of RBS – is being fined £8.75 million for failures in its money laundering systems. I welcome that.
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On the Moral Maze last week I was asked why I thought we should tax. I was going to offer five reasons, but by the
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What’s got David Cameron into yet another mess? The simple absence of sunshine on a big pile of cash, that’s what. Whenever people think they
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Recently TJN writers were on the LSE blog explaining the economic folly of corporate tax cuts. For example: “British corporations are awash with cash: according to
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The run up to the budget is always frenetic. And now it’s been and gone and we know how debased the Tory’s thinking is. In
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I don’t always agree with Will Hutton. On this he was spot on, today: According to the IFS, 88% of the planned spending cuts lie
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George Osborne said in his budget speech this week: I regard tax evasion and — indeed — aggressive tax avoidance — as morally repugnant. I
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