Last year David Cameron supposedly spearheaded international demands for country-by-country reporting. In 2014 the UK has forgotten that commitment. In the latest edition of Tax Analysts
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UKIP has claimed that: 18 pence in the pound goes on servicing government debt. This cannot go unchallenged. Total government spending in 2013-14 was expected
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As the Guardian notes this morning flood defences in places like the Somerset levels and Dawlish were abandoned because of the cuts. The cost to society
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I am surprised that Jose Barroso of the EU has said that Scotland would have to re-apply for mebership of the EU if it voted
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There is much discussion in the financial pages of the fact that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has recovered about $882 million in tax in Australia
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The Guardian notes this morning that the National Audit Office is saying civil servants and ministers have not got to grips with pursuing unpaid taxes, fines
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The Fair Tax Mark is being re-launched in a new form next Thursday. The Guardian is already on the issue:  As one commentator and former critic
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Martin Wolf remains on top form. This is from his FT comment piece this morning: [I]t is astonishing how little this crisis has shaken conventional
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This week has provided telling evidence that when all else fails people expect government to work. I’ve not noted the presence of the private sector
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