I never expected an internally appointed review of Barclays to greatly rock the boat, and the Salz review doesn’t. This is all it concludes on tax: Barclays
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Barclays was dysfunctional, but our government has the same goals, styles and policies, and that’s really worrying
I have just begun to dip into the Salz report on Barclays’ investment banking division. I will not pretend to have read it all, but a paragraph (I’ve
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Global inequality in 4 minutes
First they came for the unemployed, the poor and the disabled
First they came for the unemployed, the poor and disabled, I did not speak out because I was not unemployed, poor or disabled. Then they
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You’ve got to be slim and good looking to take advantage of a tax haven
These two were exploiting Cyprus yesterday: Today I notice they’re the face of eating right on the Guardian: Got to be slim and good looking to take advantage
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Australia leads the way on multinational corporation tax cheats, demanding they publish their tax affairs
It looks like Australia has had enough of major corporate tax cheats and the slow progress towards country-by-country reporting that the objections from the Big 4 accountancy firms
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Tories living in the land where the Magic Job Tree grows alongside the Magic Money Tree
As the Guardian notes this morning: A new frontier of the battle over the welfare state is being opened up as employment ministers look for ways to
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Corporation tax and Northern Ireland’s politicians: the lemmings have been ushered away from the cliff
Andrew Baker, with whom I have co-authored, had a good piece in the Belfast Telegraph yesterday on the lonely campaign he, I and a few others with ICTU
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