I gave a lecture at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University last night using the above title. I often post my
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Worstall’s always one behind
Ivan Horrocks asked about my blog ranking this morning, which spurred me to look at ebuzzing as I hadn’t for ages. This is the December
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Every day large numbers of lawyers are proven to be wrong
Dealing with commentators on this blog reminds me of a story I was told a long time ago, I think by my father. Every day
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Tax and charities – a bigger ethical issue than how they invest?
The subject of charities and ethics is being openly debated following the revelation that millions of pounds of Comic Relief funds have been invested in
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Tax subsidies to business do not work
David Cay Johnston has a fascinating article on Tax Analysts, now released from behind a firewall. As he notes: The fast-increasing use of tax incentives
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The new VAT gap suggests UK GDP may be understated by up to 10% and tax evasion has to exceed £70 billion
I’ve just realised HMRC issued a new VAT gap estimate late last week. This is it: To put the data in context the time series
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This morning’s ‘I don’t believe it’ moment
There are occasions when the sheer crass stupidity of ministers driven by ‘free market’ dogma brings out the Victor Meldrew in me. This was one,
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Update on the Gagging Bill
I got the following press release this morning and thought it useful enough to share in full: The Christian political think-tank Ekklesia has endorsed a
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The domicile rule has outstayed its welcome. It’s time for it to go
The issue of domicile he re-surfaced in the comments on this blog. I wrote the blog reproduced below in March 2007, but nothing of real substance
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