This is the size of Greek debt: The latest data I have on Greek GDP is €182.4 bn in 2013. So debt was 175%
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Can Greece wave goodbye to debt? Video reaction
Oxfam was founded to relieve poverty in Greece. Surely it won’t have to do it again?
A commentator on this blog this morning asked the question asked the practical question of how we might help Greece. It reminded me of the
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You couldn’t make this up
From City AM today: So asking people to pay the right amount of tax in the right place at the right time is an injustice
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The Green New Deal in the FT
The following letter from my friend and Green New Deal colleague Colin Hines is in the FT this morning: Sir, You are correct to say (“No
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The Tax Dodging Bill – the demands
I have already mentioned the demand made by 17 NGOs today for a Tax Dodging Bill. How the Tax Dodging Bill website is live so I
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Fair Tax Mark companies call for a Tax Dodging Bill
I have already noted this morning that 17 NHOs have combined to call on the government to introduce a Tax Dodging Bill within 100 days of the
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When lawyers aren’t too sure about law enforcement
I referred yesterday to the press release issued by law firm Pinsent Masons that suggested HMRC had increased its tax recovery from affluent people by
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We mustn’t “frighten the marketsâ€
Trust the FT to deliver the goods on Greece. Today they carry this article: What else the article says beyond the headline does not really matter
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