The FT has noted this morning that: A tax avoidance crackdown is set to turn the spotlight on previously undetected inheritance tax planning schemes, where
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Everything about a set of accounts is subjective, even the year end date
I was amused by this comment on the blog this morning: You call yourself an accountant, right? If that was so, you would know that
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The East Coast main line is anathema to the neoliberal project
I wrote this morning about the absurdity of re-privatising the East Coast mainline, and a number of useful comments have been made. Ivan Horrocks of
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Investing in railways to the North
I commented last week on the subject of the wrong type of investment in railways in the North so let me offer another example of
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NHS privatisation: the loss leader model
The Observer features the strike by care workers in Doncaster as its main story today. I am delighted they have. This is a massive issue
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The Salter Lecture at the Quaker’s Yearly Meeting
I mentioned yesterday that I was to give the Salter lecture for the Quaker Socialist Society at the Quaker’s Yearly Meeting in Bath last night.
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NHS bid rigged
The FT reports this morning that: A plan that would have taken the NHS into uncharted territory by inviting external bids to run a deficit-ridden
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We need a corporation tax
There appeared to be a spate of articles published in the USA yesterday suggesting that the US corporation tax should be abolished. The arguments used
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Tackling ‘the boys’
I have written about tax barrister Jolyon Maugham and his emergence as one of the new thinkers on tax reform in this country before. Today
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