It is some indication of the times we live in that by far the best read article on the blog yesterday was the one mentioning
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Bank audits were dire, but the question is not why, but how they get away with it
The FT has a report this morning that begins: The regulatory body that oversees the auditing profession has criticised the industry’s “below average” quality and
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Economic relationships that no longer hold true
In my opinion the must read economist is no longer the likes of Krugman, or even Martin Wolf. The economist who is delivering most value,
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Do you want to work for the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust?
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust is by far the biggest sponsor of my work. They have a vacancy available at present and I suggested I’d lend
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Policy Network singing the City of London’s tune
There are times when I despair of the left and supposedly left wing think tanks. My current despair is the result of work by the
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Thanks to International Tax Review who’ve named me the 7th most influential person in tax
The last thing I expected when starting work on tax abuse was public recognition for that work. If I had then I would have been
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£20.6 bn of fraud losses to the government – and that’s before the tax gap
The BBC has reported on the government’s new accounts (which I have yet to look at in detail) and noted that: The committee said the
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The whiff of corruption remains in the extractive industries
The FT has noted this morning that: A letter from the Central Bank of Nigeria suggests that the state oil company has failed to account for nearly
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Tax, power and philanthropy
I wrote yesterday on tax and charity, mentioning that the article I republished then had been written for Alliance magazine but had not eventually published. A different article was published by them under
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