PWC have been awarded the task of assessing the economic impact of making country-by-country reporting information available to the public as a result of the EU
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The June Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network
In the June 2014 Taxcast: the guillotine v progressive tax? The Taxcast looks at Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the 21st Century. Also: – welcome
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California proves it: increase taxes and you can increase employment
If you believed everything said in the media and by many politicians you would think that higher taxes are an obstacle to job creation. That
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Message to Jean-Claude Junker: will you publicly back EU efforts to make business fairer?
This post was written jointly by Gavin Hayman of Global Witness and me and first appeared on the Global Witness blog today: Plenty of column
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If you want to be a tax judge now’s the time to apply
The FT has reported this morning that: Plans to recruit dozens of new judges have been drawn up to cope with a wave of litigation
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The dead hand of austerity
Paul Krugman had a column in the New York Times on Saturday that suggested that there is strong evidence to suggest that for every 1%
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Face facts: the deficit will not be closed during the next parliament
Politicians of all hues claim that they understand why people do not trust them, but if they do then I see no evidence that the
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The NHS worked. Now it’s biggest threat is reform
I don’t always agree with Will Hutton. This morning I do. Writing in the Observer his article is entitled: The NHS is loved and efficient,
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Dismantling the Courageous State and delivering the cowardly alternative: 1 million people to lose their jobs
I have written this morning about the efficiency of the state. And in the process I said that the aim of big business is to
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