New corporation tax statistics are out from HMRC this morning. They can be looked at from all sorts of directions of course, but one of
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Burger King’s tax whopper
I’ve been talking about corporation tax, especially in a US context of late. Here’s one reason why: The US right wing response to this avoidance
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Carswell’s challenge to the left is that it has to deliver for people
I have to admit I rarely read Janan Ganesh in the FT: if I wanted to read right wing nonsense in the morning I had,
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More people have mobile phones in the world than have access to a toilet
The Guardian features a story today that is on one of the most basic issues in the world: where we defecate. And as they report,
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Positive thinking on tax
I note Jolyon Maugham is worried about me this morning. At just after nine this morning he tweeted: I was able to reassure him a
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Reasons for having corporation tax
I might have been alone last night in watching the Great British Bake Off whilst sketching out some ideas on the reasons why any country
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Apologies are not enough: the right to protest about tax is essential
The police apologised to six members of UK Uncut yesterday for the use of excessive and inappropriate force during the course of a peaceful demonstration
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Opposition to democracy is not some historical anachronism: it’s alive and well on the UK right wing today
I was interested in this in an article by Own Jones this morning in the Guardian, promoting his new book, The Establishment*: “I have heard
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Believing that the self interest of tax professionals will save the US corporation tax is not a basis for hope
Martin Wolf had this to say in the FT this morning: Limited-liability, privately owned joint-stock companies are the core institutions of modern capitalism. These entities are
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