As I’ve already noted this morning, Barclays has decided to review its sales of tax products as “some of them may no longer be appropriate”. There are
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The ultra wealthy don’t create wealth, they just own it
I have a piece on Comment is Free this morning, asking whether the fourth richest man in the world is leaving France for tax reasons
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Lessons from Barclays: companies don’t have a duty to minimise their tax bills
Barclays has decided to review its sales of tax products as “some of them may no longer be appropriate”. As I’ve already noted, there are lessons to
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Lessons from Barclays: tax avoidance does not pay
Barclays has decided to review its sales of tax products as “some of them may no longer be appropriate”. There are lessons to be learned
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The recession, its causes and how to solve it in one blog
The TUC published this graph yesterday: What it shows is how much the average worker has lost because wages have not kept up with growth
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Barclays admits its tax products were “inappropriate”
The FT’s reporting this morning that: Barclays will take the axe to its controversial tax structuring unit, as the UK lender seeks to clean up its
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False Economy: 5 things you need to know about welfare cuts and the economy
False Economy has issued another of its brilliant FactSheets, this time on five things you need to know about welfare cuts and the economy, which
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A General Anti-Tax Avoidance Principle that passes the Ronseal Test
This Friday the government closes its consultation on what it calls its General Anti-Abuse rule for tax. There however a massive problem with that rule: it does
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Available this Friday – a genuine General Anti-Tax Avoidance Principle for the UK
On Friday 14 September Michael Meacher, the Labour MP for Oldham West is tabling a Private Member's Bill into the House of Commons that will,
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