The Taxpayers’ Alliance is absurd. Everyone but the Mail and Express knows that. Their latest book of government waste does, however, take some beating. Amongst
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Google’s inverted world needs to be challenged – and India might be the place to start
Tax Analysts (paywall) report this morning that: According to a January 31 Press Trust of India report, Google argued in [an] affidavit that it does
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Miliband’s Hugo Young lecture does not challenge real power structures; it just passes the buck
I have read the short version of Ed Miliband’s Hugo Young lecture, to be delivered tonight. I am disappointed by it. The opening is good.
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It’s time the rest of the country was given the attention by London that it deserves
I lived in London for 22 years. I only intended to stay for three when I arrived, but then things happened and my departure wax
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A soul sold to the devil of money grubbing is no basis for an English state
If I was Scottish I would vote for independence. David Cameron's performance – bizarrely staged in an apparently empty stadium – would only confirm why.
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There is a moral economy but we haven’t released it
Early in the morning, on a train to a London, I ask myself why I do this. I am not alone in doing so. It
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Enough of the cost of benefits, what do subsidies to higher rate taxpayers cost?
I am a little bored of discussion of the cost of social security from which we all, unambiguously, benefit. I thought it time, assisted by some
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When HMRC’s most senior staff strike for the first time the time for change has arrived
As Accountancy Age have reported: An HM Revenue & Customs strike involving members of the Association of Revenue and Customs union is to take place
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Why doesn’t HMRC think our opinions count?
I was sent a report by HMRC yesterday on what it called its ‘Stakeholder Research’. You can find this here. This is how the short
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