I noted the enthusiasm of some for my suggestions on tax and human rights the other day, so I thought I would return to the
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Just saying
The FT notes this morning that: The Cayman Islands, Luxembourg and Jersey are among 42 countries that have agreed to pioneer a tax transparency regime in another milestone
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New OECD report on automatic information exchange: will developing countries be left out?
The Tax Justice Network posted this press release today and I share it as I endorse what it says: Feb 13, 2014 – Today the OECD presented a
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Linda Kaucher on TTIP – worth watching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etUJguPSKMw Linda Kaucher has been a long term opponent of so called free-trade agreements that legally enforce neo-liberalism. This extract from the Kesier Report is
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What we need is a flood of money
I have already written about funding the NHS this morning. So let me offer another idea on how to funf flood defences. As is now
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Saving for the NHS
On Monday night I watched Jeremy Paxman’s programme on the First World War. One of the social dimensions of the war that he discussed was
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In the economic equation is it time to set inflation free?
In any equation that requires a solution there have to be controlled and uncontrolled variables. Unless something is fixed there is just an equation. So
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New comments policy
I took part in some Twitter exchanges with two fellow bloggers and tweeters on the perils of trolls last night. One was Frances Coppola and
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HMRC announce the closure of all Enquiry Centres in June 2014 and the loss of 8,000 jobs over the next year
HMRC announced to its staff this lunchtime that it is closing 281 Face to Face Enquiry Centres by June this year. As PCS, the union
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