It’s  Christmas. If Christmas Eve does not, in many ways, embody the spirit of Christmas then nothing does. But my wife is at work, my sons are
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What we now know about the Republicans in the USA is that rather than vote to save the US economy and avoid massive tax rises
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As the Guardian notes: The banking standards commission has put the possibility of a full break-up of the banks back on the political agenda by
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Fox News (not a common source here) has reported: Switzerland’s president is hinting that the nation may be open to accepting an automatic exchange of
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In December’s Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network: –  Banks – too big to fail and now too big to prosecute? –  Thanks but no
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As Suzanne Moore rightly notes in the Guardian this morning, this has been the year of the foodbank. Next year it will be worse. As
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The FT notes on the record breaking UBS fine for LIBOR rigging: The penalty may prove to be the biggest fine levied on banks that
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For the first time ever the Danish tax authorities started publishing information on the taxes paid by all Danish companies today. You can see a sample here.
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No wonder NEF is calling for  banking reform. Me too.