Ten years ago I wrote a report for Church Action on Poverty on the need for an interest rate cap on loans made by doorstep
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All politicians are to blame for the Co-op’s failings because they’re the failing of banking as a whole
The argument about who is to blame for the C0o-op’s failings continues. With reason Labour and Conservatives blame each other for what has happened. Overall,
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If you ask who small business dislikes more, HMRC or their banks the bankers always win
I spent about 20 years of my career as a practicing chartered accountant, in he process advising many mainly small and medium sized businesses. Most
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The November Tax Justice Network Taxcast
In the November 2013 Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network: the movers and the shakers in the 2013 Financial Secrecy Index, the pariah states trying
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There are four variables in multinational corporation tax – but we can only control two at a time
The battle to tax multinational corporations does, in my opinion, revolve around just four variables. They are the tax base, i.e. what should be taxed. Then
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Luxembourg: gateway to abuse
As the Tax Justice Network has reported this afternoon, Luxembourg has failed its second stage OECD Global Forum review because of serious and systemic regulatory
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Venn diagrams for our times: Venn diagrams for our times
Maybe the Co-op should walk away from its bank
As the FT notes this morning: The Co-operative Bank is preparing for multiple investigations lasting for years as regulators try to get to the bottom
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