As FinFacts has reported in Ireland: The Obama Administration has proposed a minimum tax on profits of US companies in foreign jurisdictions that if implemented
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The Washington Post published what I thought a very wise op-ed a couple of days ago. It was only when I was well into it
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This is another graph based on budget data from a period of more than a decade, all sourced from HM Treasury. It shows current government income compared
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From Samuel Brittan in the FT this morning: “Roads are made, streets are made . . electric light turns night into day. . . To
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Swissinfo has reported: The private Sarasin bank says clients withdrew SFr2.4 billion ($2.6 billion) in the second half of 2011. Its report on its annual
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As the FT has noted this morning: Greece must carry out no fewer than 38 measures by the end of this month whose combined effect
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Transparency International had this letter in the FT today: The position expressed by the large oil companies (“Shell joins push to dilute EU’s proposed anti-corruption
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The Swiss announced measures to maintain banking secrecy, clean up their tax haven yesterday. One of the amusing ones was a suggestion that Swiss banks
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