In April 2013’s Taxcast: ‘offshore leaks’ blows the lid off secrecy for sale, the G20 endorse greater transparency (but let’s not get too excited), Luxembourg
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Memo from the Treasury: Democracy is fine unless it is for Scotland
This, from the Guardian, is quite shocking: The Treasury has warned that it could refuse to agree a formal currency union with an independent Scotland unless Scottish
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Bankrupt ideas: trickle down
I’ve mentioned one bankrupt idea this morning, and here are some more. This diagram comes from the New Economics Foundation paper ‘Why we need a new macroeconomic strategy’: As NEF
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Was this the month when austerity met the employment market?
Why are Jersey so frightened of the Tax Justice Network?
I noted yesterday that Geoff Cook of Jersey Finance had been quick to ridicule the EU’s drive against tax evasion because it quoted my research, which he
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Unburnable carbon – the next financial crisis in the making
The Guardian had a great animation yesterday on the unburnable carbon that could now be inflating stock exchange values of a large range of quoted mining companies.
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From the Heart of Capital to the Classic Gold Choice, tax avoidance is just a beat away
Corporate Watch have published the latest work to reveal a company using debt financing to shift all their profits out of the UK. As they note: This is Global, the UK’s biggest
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Bankrupt ideas: austerity works
As the Guardian notes: The European Union’s focus on austerity has hit the limits of public acceptance, according to the head of the EU’s executive arm,
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Bill Dodwell can’t face both ways at once
The Mail published some interesting, but limited data on Sunday suggesting the lack of information on which companies registered on the FTSE 100 do and do not disclose the
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