2013 March 18

Is the Sark PAYE lark Guernsey’s fault?

Posted on March 18 2013

Over the weekend the Treasury shut down an abusive tax scheme that was costing £100 million a year in lost UK national insurance. The scheme depended on employers
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The OECD and the $100 billion it helps industry hide from tax authorities

Posted on March 18 2013

Jesse Drucker from Bloomberg is the man who turned Google’s tax affairs into a global issue, with a little help from me. Now he’s at it again,
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We won’t balance the books, even by 2018. The Treasury forecasting model is wrong and Osborne is too dumb to have noticed

Posted on March 18 2013

As the FT notes this morning (because almost everything about this budget is being leaked in advance) George Osborne will admit in Wednesday’s Budget that
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The greatest current tax abuse of all is that companies are over here and under-taxed – and it’s deliberate

Posted on March 18 2013

Richard Brooks of Private Eye says this morning: George Osborne has pulled off a stunning confidence trick: he has bamboozled people into thinking he is
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My budget: what I’d be doing on Wednesday

Posted on March 18 2013

Budget predictions and demands can be boring (read most of those in the Observer if you don’t believe me) but it is an annual requirement
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