The Autumn Statement is this week – on Wednesday, at about 12.30. I will, as usual, be discussing it on Radio 2 very soon after
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If London’s in charge of its court will it have become a City state?
The Guardian has reported that Boris Johnson wants to secure control of the courts and the prosecution service, a move which would put London’s mayor in
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So much for Osborne’s Google tax
In September George Osborne said he was going to use the Autumn Statement to put a new tax on the likes of Google. I had
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85% of British adults say tax avoidance by large companies is morally wrong
The following press release comes from Christian Aid but is worth sharing in full: —— More than four in five (85 per cent) British adults
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The futility of tax competition
The FT reports this morning that: The UK has lost its top slot in a league table of multinational companies’ favourite tax regimes, in spite
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Osborne’s new money for the NHS only corrects his earlier budgeting mistake
There will, no doubt, be much trumpeting about a promise of new money – of uncertain amount – for the NHS over the next few
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