I couldn’t have made this up in the FT: As a rebuttal that’s pretty robust.
Campaigning against tax havens has worked, but we still have a way to go
In November 2011 I worked with International Tax Review to leak that the UK’s Crown Dependencies were going to sign what have been called ‘son of
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The Mail can’t even tell the truth about the prevailing hegemonic thinking
Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, has written in the Guardian this morning. It’s a rant, and a rather nasty rant, as might be
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The fundamental flaw with right wing economic thinking
A commentator on this blog highlighted in a few words the fundamental flaw in right wing thinking on economic management overnight when he or she
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HMRC’s new tax gap report: a work of fiction and guess work
HM Revenue & Customs have published this year’s tax gap report. If anything these reports get more ludicrous by the year. The methodology – much
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The OECD needs to realise country-by-country reporting is not a business inspired initiative
The OECD has issued a discussion paper on transfer pricing and country-by-country reporting. A little over ten years after I first introduced the idea of country-by-country reporting
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Help to Buy mortgages: the grip of death?
This is irresistible from Martin Wolf, this morning, writing on Help to Buy: A deregulated and dynamic housing supply could spell financial and political Armageddon.
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Google: the abuse goes on
As the FT report this morning: Google funnelled €8.8bn of royalty payments to Bermuda last year, a quarter more than in 2011, underlining the rapid expansion
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Government works. It’s time the right realised
The real Republican agenda in the US is becoming increasingly apparent. The FT reports this morning that: A day of cautious optimism that lifted hopes
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