2013 September 16

We don’t need a new tax on cash on balance sheets – we just need an effective corporation tax

Posted on September 16 2013

The FT notes this morning that: The amount of cash held on the balance sheets of the UK’s largest companies by market value has reached
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10 years for benefit fraud is absurd when 99% of tax fraudsters walk away with their anonymity intact

Posted on September 16 2013

The Independent carries the following, absurd, report this morning: Benefit cheats will face increased jail terms of up to 10 years in a crackdown on
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Bob Diamond’s onto something with this idea for global regualtion

Posted on September 16 2013

I had a double take at a story in the FT this morning: Bob Diamond — the former head of Barclays who tried to buy Lehman
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Venn diagrams for our times: libertarianism

Posted on September 16 2013

Venn diagrams for our time: political opposition

Posted on September 16 2013

You couldn’t make it up: Barclays sponsoring the Guardian’s international development award

Posted on September 16 2013

This is from today’s Guardian: You really couldn’t make it up: Barlcays, the bank that tried to create a tax haven in Ghana, sponsoring an
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