The morning session of the PAC tax conference was, I think it fair to say, pretty good. Margaret Hodge was on form. Grace Perez-Navarro of
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I was amused by a comment from a journalist I met at the PAC conference yesterday, who assured me he did not wish to sound
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I floated the idea of an Office for Tax Responsibility at the PAC Conference yesterday, and the response was interesting and favourable from some key
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I was at the Public Accounts Committee tax conference yesterday and if I get time will note a number of reactions today. What was immediately
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The government has issued a press release today saying: Government to pay off part of the nation’s First World War debt, as part of a
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Barclays is expectng to be fined £500 million for rigging foreign exchange markets. So, it's another day and another massive fine for a bank. Put
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I commented on the referendum in Scotland and so will comment on its aftermath despite the fact that I am not, of course, anywhere near
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The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee is holding what is, I think, the first ever conference staged by such a committee today, looking, almost
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I was in debate with Heinz Zourek, the Director General of EU taxation yesterday at an event I have already mentioned. During that debate I
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