Jolyon Maugham has put forward an interesting argument on his blog. He has argued that the Coalition government’s plan to restrict the use of losses
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I’m in Scotland for a significant part of next week. This is the one public event of the visit:   See you there?

This off the cuff exchange at Bath University is just too good not to share:

HMRC have obviously issued a press briefing that is breathlessly reported as follows by the FT: HM Revenue & Customs raked in £1.1bn from challenging
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If evidence is needed that we continue to be governed by cowardly politicians of the sort that I described in The Courageous State then George
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Jonathan Fisher QC has an article in The Times this morning that suggests that he would welcome HSBC prosecutions. The Times paywall is one most
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According to elite state agents Knight Frank the rich are getting richer, and are in London: London has been home to more of the ultra-rich
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Jolyn Maugham has provided an excellent analysis of the Court of Appeal decision in the Ingenious case. His analysis is more interesting though. As he says:
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Some good work by Transparency International in the UK is reported by the FT today. As the FT notes: The secrecy surrounding foreign owners of
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