The FT reports this morning that: Only one in 12 of the UK’s family-owned companies has plans to expand aggressively over the next five years,
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You didn’t believe tax abuse was big business? Think again
There are still those who say that tax abuse is not big business. And there are others who deny that it is, all too often,
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Ireland ends one era of abuse – and opens another one
Ireland is to close the ‘double Irish’ tax arrangement that has facilitated so much international tax abuse. The reality is that this will mean it
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The Church of England should hang its head in shame in London
I liked this letter from veteran tax and poverty campaigner Rev Paul Nicolson in the Guardian this morning: Owen Jones’s tale of woe about rootless,
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The race to the bottom is off
I was pleased to note from the FT this morning that in debate on devolution of tax powers to Scotland “all three parties agree that
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It’s more likely that George Osborne is the next Dr Who than he will balance the government’s books
I have warned, successively, that the Budget forecasts on tax revenue growth were ludicrously high both for this year and for several to come. I
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Current UK earnings crisis is without precedent and all we are promised is it will get worse
I am shamelessly taking this from a TUC press release issued this weekend as I think it needs to be known: UK workers are suffering
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Never in the history of humankind have so many suffered so much for the greed of a few
What’s the difference between an increase of 21% in a year and a loss of 8% over seven years? The answer is that it depends
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The face of tax evasion? It’s time to prosecute
I was amused by the presentation of this Guardian article this morning: I did wonder if there was an implication that I was now the
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