I was asked yesterday how we could beat tax evasion in the UK. This line of questioning usually starts with the person asking (often, as
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Tesco is putting on the face of rent seeking capitalism
The FT is full of comment this morning that Tesco now has a board with little or no experience of food retailing. I am not
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The erratic Marxist: the video
The EU says its going for tax transparency without mentioning country-by-country reporting
The EU has announced today that it will be launching a new package on tax transparency next month. They say: The European Commission today launched
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The Swiss are to investigate HSBC
Failing capitalism
Three quotations from the last day’s papers and publications do, when combined, explain a lot. The first is from Martin Wolf of the FT: In
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Inequality, Cayman style
This story comes from this week’s Offshore Wrapper from the Tax Justice Network (which I recommend): And now for an everyday story about the power of financial
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Free thinking on HMRC
A man called Bob Mountain, who as far as I know I have never met, has an article out on the Open Democracy web site
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The right to comment
I thought this comment from the Church of England website today was powerful, especially in the light of political reaction to the Bishop’s letter to
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