I mentioned an attack on the TUC’s tax avoidance spoof magazine ‘Kerching’ by Mayfair lawyer Miles Dean yesterday. He followed up his attack with an
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Miliband comprehensively embraces Keynes – and with it the need for a Courageous State
The core message in Ed Miliband’s speech on the economy this morning was a key one. In that speech he rejected three of the planks
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If WPP can move its tax residence at will it’s clearly too easy to do so
WPP is moving its tax residence back to the UK. Osborne has bribed them back with his absurd new rules that exempt a UK parent
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Is unemployment deliberate? You bet it is
Frances O’Grady – incoming TUC general secretary – has suggested in a Guardian interview today that high unemployment is a deliberate ploy being used by the government to suppress wage claims and
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An international tax lawyers response to the TUC Kerching report is ‘make the UK a tax haven’
I’ve been highlighting the TUC’s new tax abuse report this morning – called ‘Kerching’. As a result I was amused to get an email from a PR
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Tackling tax avoidance – the TUC way
Rosa RIP
For the last seven years my near constant work companion has been Rosa, a cocker spaniel who came to live with us when she was
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New ministers of “questionable ability” says the FT
I couldn’t resist this from this morning’s FT editorial: True, Mr Cameron has in the name of party management thrown some bones to the backbenches. But
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Top tips for celebrity tax avoidance – TUC gossip mag ‘Kerching’ urges Chancellor to act
With tax avoidance by companies and the super-rich costing the public purse an estimated £25 billion a year, the TUC has today (Wednesday) published Kerching! – a
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