The FT has noted today that India is introducing tough new laws on tax haven abusers as a reaction to the HSBC scandal. In a
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This looks like it could be fun on Monday
This email arrived this afternoon: ———— Public Accounts Committee Informal note to the media Subject: Tax avoidance and evasion: HSBC The Committee has decided to
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Northern Ireland to pay the price for tax competition
As the FT reports this morning: Northern Ireland’s devolved government faces its biggest overhaul in 15 years as politicians and officials brace for the arrival
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Capitalism has run out of ideas
Edmund Phelps was the 2006 Nobel laureate in Economics and is director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. He argues in the
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People do get the difference between tax avoidance and evasion – and don’t like either
As Economia magazine, and many others, have noted: The majority of the British public thinks it is unacceptable to avoid paying tax, according to a
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We will have nationalised railways
The East Coast main line was privatised, again, yesterday. After five years in public ownership, in which it was one of only two train franchises
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It isn’t the left’s job to enforce a creditor’s paradise in Europe
Mark Blyth is the Eastman professor of political economy at Brown University and the author of Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea. A recent
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What happens when there’s only finance left?
As the FT notes this morning: The coalition’s ambitions to promote the UK’s £60bn pharmaceutical sector as a high-growth industry have suffered a blow after
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Even the FT says it is time for the domicile rule to go
In an editorial this morning the FT says: More than two centuries after the introduction of income tax by Mr Pitt, his successors should end
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