I wrote about the ‘Tory revolution’ this morning. That’s the process I described in The Courageous State where this government (and to some extent the New Labour
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Not giving enough to a government owned agency to enable it to do its job is not a measure of market failure: it’s a measure of under-resourcing.
Economia magazine has reported: The government’s Insolvency Service is on the verge of becoming insolvent, according to reports The group needed an emergency injection of
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The pinstripe mafia that’s threatening to steal countries’ tax revenues is made up of lawyers, bankers and accountants
The OECD is acknowledging that aggressive tax planning (ATP) is more extensive and damaging than they have previously admitted. Take this by the OECD, issued yesterday, acknowledging
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We’re selling the Uk to Qatar
The FT’s noted this morning: Qatar has begun talks with the UK government to invest up to £10bn from the gas-rich Middle Eastern state into
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Large parts of the government are to be moved into the private sector to raise revenue
This comes from the Guardian this morning: The feverish atmosphere [in the Conservative Party] is highlighted in today’s Spectator whose political editor, James Forsyth, reports that
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A worried man
I look at this picture and the images on television last night and all I see is a worried man: As well he might
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The Coalition’s legacy will be a massive and deliberate increase in child poverty by 2015
This is a TUC press release referring to a new report by my friend and sometimes co-author Howard Reed, out today, so I reproduce it pretty
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A tale of two Londons – Nick Shaxson’s new Vanity Fair article
Nick Shaxson’s Vanity Fair articles have impact. One broke the story of Mitt Romney’s offshore tax affairs. And, of course, he wrote Treasure Islands. He’s also a Tax Justice
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How come we outsourced accounting, company law and auditing regulation to the Big 4 so they could rig the system in favour of bankers’ bonuses?
The Telegraph has noted: PIRC has calculated the amount of bad debts the banks may have to write off in coming years but have yet to subtract
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