This comes from the excellent David Conn in the Guardian today from a long feature he has written on Tottenham Hotspur’s plans to redevelop White
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Cameron’s public register of the beneficial ownership of companies will be a damp squib of a reform
David Cameron is announcing today that the UK is to have a public register on the beneficial ownership of companies. That’s the good news. And
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2008 was not a blip, it was a complete change in trajectory for the economy
This extraordinary graph comes from a new paper by Prof Richard Jones of Sheffield University in a new paper on the need to invest in
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This bubble will burst
The FT has this headline in an email this morning: You can almost sense the fear pervading the writer who is seeking any excuse to
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Cameron announces the UK will have a public registry of the beneficial ownership of companies
This press release has been issued by Downing Street today: The Prime Minister will announce further steps to crackdown on tax evasion by tackling the
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You can’t keep fleecing the tax compliant and ignoring the non compliant without the compliant waking up to that fact
I rather liked this comment, from someone I know to be an accountant, on the blog this morning (I have edited slightly as I quote
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Who inherits in the UK?
The Office for National Statistics published a survey on inheritance in the UK for the years 2008 to 2010 yesterday. It’s a telling report. As they
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Does the UK want to become a greater Hong Kong?
I have just noted what appears to be the systemic capacity of the banking system to be corrupt. Despite this Mark Carney, the new governor
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Isn’t it time we said that the world’s major banks were systemically corrupt?
This comes from one of this morning’s FT emails: Isn’t it just time we recognised that the world’s major banks were systemically corrupt? Why not
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