The Guardian has reported this morning that: HM Revenue and Customs is shutting all of its 281 inquiry centres, which provide face-to-face help on tax, and replacing them
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Guernsey succumbs to the UK’s demand for tax transparency. Now when will Jersey fall?
Last November I was involved in disclosing the news that the UK intended to impose FATCA style agreements on the UK’s Crown Dependencies, and then
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A glimmer of hope for the bedroom tax legal campaign from Spain
For those seeking to legally challenge the Bedroom Tax and caps on benefits that will force tens of thousands of people to kove in the UK
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Northern Ireland is at an economic crossroads and cutting corporation tax would be the wrong turning
I have co-written a comment article on Northern Ireland’s corporation tax debate with Andrew Baker, a Reader in Political Economy at Queen’s University, Belfast for the blog of
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It’s happening again -they’re reporting stock exchange highs as if they’re good news
This is from a mail from the FT, received just now: Some won’t remember previous occasions when reporting of stock exchange highs was undertaken almost daily (as now) with
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We oppose the bedroom tax
For those who can’t wait for the budget, might I suggest a little weekend reading?
For those wondering what they’d wish for in the budget might I recommend Chapter 8 of ‘Over here and under-taxed’ which offers a whole raft
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It’s not Balls who is the liability – it’s Osborne who voters can’t stand
One of the most unusual moments during the Olympics was when the main stadium seemed, as a person, to boo George Osborne when he took
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That Tory revolution and the rise of neofeudalism
I wrote two blogs yesterday on what I called the Tory revolution – the plan to sell off as much of the government as possible
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