This comes from the mornings Bank of England Inflation Report: The message is clear: we’re working hard to go precisely nowhere. No wonder wages are
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Jobs, what jobs?
This is from the Bank of England Inflation report issued this morning: Unemployment has fallen to 6.4%, but look at the trend: most new jobs
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Growth, what growth?
This is from the Bank of England Inflation Report issued this morning: Look carefully at that dark green area that represents the growth projection. What
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Recovery, what recovery?
From the ONS this morning: Real earnings are falling. Bonuses excluded this is the lowest increase ever recorded. And Osborne has the nerve to say
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Risk Mining the Public Exchequer: a new report by David Quentin
I have recently written about Jolyon Maugham, a tax barrister who is having a real and positive impact on campaigns against tax avoidance. I think
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Self employment is great if that’s what you want
I’ve been self employed for thirty years. My total employment career lasted just the minimum five needed to secure all my accounting qualifications. Then I
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Sweden sees sense
Having blogged about the fact that I am about to start work writing ‘The Joy of Tax’ it was good to note this in the
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The Joy of Tax is on its way
For a number of years I said I was working on a book called The Joy of Tax. However the immediacy of campaigning and the
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UK government to quit Swiss tax abuse
As Reuters have noted this morning: State-backed Royal Bank of Scotland is preparing to offload the international arm of its Coutts private bank, separating it
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