Christian Aid have just issued this press release and since I am sitting in their office right now beside Jospeph Stead I think I can
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As the FT has reported this morning: India plans to increase spending on capital investment and large-scale social programs by 29 per cent in the
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I make no apology for two exclamation marks in the title of this blog. I am excited to note that the FT says this morning:
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I’ve just had it drawn to my attention that reports suggest that Mongolia has cancelled its double tax treaty with the Netherlands. The Google translation of the
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies Green Budget last week included the following chart: I think it’s a telling graph. As a result of deliberate UK government policy of cutting corporate tax receipts,
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Austerity has failed the UK. The Moody’s downgrade is evidence of that. Austerity is proving to be bad politics: Italy’s election is proving that. Labour’s
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There’s an interesting comment on the blog this morning from Tim Knight that says: It seems to me that the auditor of an enterprise ought to be
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The Avaaz petition demanding country-by-country reporting for banks has now reached at least 172,000 signatures. The target was 150,000 but the fact is that the more
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Ten years ago I created the concept of country-by-country reporting. Now the European Commission wants to apply it to banks, but the UK and Germany,
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