This comes from the Inequality Briefing: There is no reason why the top 1% have to take as much income as they do in the
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I wrote a few days ago about Action Aid’s new campaign demanding that Barclays clean up its act in Africa. Because this is not a
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HM Revenue & Customs admit the UK tax gap exceeds £35 billion a year. I argue it exceeds £95 billion on top of which there
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As many know, I don’t buy all the arguments of the standard economics repertoire, especially as now interpreted by mainly mathematical economists. But some of
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Contextual reference

Dominic Rossi, the global chief investment officer for equities at Fidelity Worldwide Investment, has argued in the FT that: Over the past decade the distribution of
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War on Want started a new campaign against the tax affairs of Alliance Boots yesterday, and have at least three articles on the issue in
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As the FT reports this morning: Worries about tax avoidance have shot to the top of public concerns about business behaviour, replacing executive remuneration by a wide
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Boris Johnson made a speech last night that will, I suspect, come to define his career. As the Guardian put it: Boris Johnson has launched a
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