Will Hutton has got this right tonight: Osborne must [now] abandon three false economic tenets. The public sector does not always crowd out the private
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Last night the Lords voted to privatise the NHS. And this is why
Last night the Lords approved the regulations that will effectively privatise the NHS, and this diagram from the latest New Economics Foundation / Tax Justice Network mythbuster shows why:
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You know that claim that the private sector’s always more efficient han the state? It is just a myth, of course
The latest New Economics Foundation / Tax Justice Network economic mythbuster is out. It’s featured in the Guardian and on the NEF website. It’s by my good
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Why aren’t Barclays and HSBC willing to say why they’re not paying a fair share of their taxes in the UK?
The Daily Mail has covered the new TJN report on unitary tax and how it would impact on HSBC and Barclays. And, in the process they’ve
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What is unitary tax (apart from something that would make banks pay a lot more in the UK)?
I’ve written this morning about new research that shows that Barclays and HSBC appear to under pay tax in the UK compared to their share of economic activity
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You don’t beat corporate tax abuse by a little voluntary disclosure in CSR reports David Cameron
In a further sign that all the rhetoric on tax fraud and the need to tackle it is just just rhetoric without a plan for
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If Cameron is serious about corporate fraud then he has to start at home – where the UK company registry is dire
According to the FT: David Cameron on Wednesday urged European leaders to be in the vanguard of a global effort to crack down on aggressive
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Barclays and HSBC make the case for unitary tax in the UK – because we’d have collected £2.6 billion more in 4 years
Since 2009, HSBC and Barclays bank may well have underpaid UK corporation tax to the tune of £2.6 billion. This figure represents the difference between
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