The main Observer editorial today discusses corporate tax avoidance. As it says towards its conclusions: Last Monday, SSE, one of the big six energy companies,
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The title asks a good question. Channel 4 News web site had Margaret Hodge and me discussing the issue yesterday. We'll be doing it again
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I was asked today by a journalist why there might be problems with a zero rate corporation tax – which is an idea many on
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I spoke at a conference on Reinventing the Economy in Glasgow last month. This is what I had to say:

In the October 2014 Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network: never mind social welfare, how much is corporate welfare costing us? Across the US they’re
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But everyone needs a day off once in a while, me included

I am on the organising committee for this conference and so encourage submissions ons in response to this call for papers: SHOULD NATION STATES ‘COMPETE’?
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My friend and co-author, the economist Howard Reed, had a powerful article on the Compass blog yesterday in which he trailed work we are proposing
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The UK has an Office for Budget Responsibility. I admit I have my doubts about it, and its independence. There are good reasons for that.
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