Frances Coppola, who is a well respected commentator on banking issues, has issued a response to my comment piece in Holyrood magazine on green infrastructure quantitative
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Creating and managing tax risk
In 2003 John Christensen and I were driving the then very new and very small Tax Justice Network. We needed a strategy that would draw
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Tackling the economy in the first 100 days of a new government: guest post by Howard Reed
The following blog was posted on the CLASS website yesterday and is by my friend and occasional co-author, Howard Reed, who is is Director of Landman Economics,
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Nine out of ten adults in marginal constituencies say tax dodging by large companies is morally wrong
ActionAid issued the following press release overnight which I am happy to share: Almost two thirds of those in key marginal constituencies believe political party
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Is this election about who we are, and not the economy?
I admit I don’t often quote Telegraph columnists here, but this from Mary Riddell this morning is good: This election, billed as a referendum on
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Harsh austerity isn’t necessary, and does major damage
From Paul Krugman’s ‘The Austerity Delusion’ in the Guardian today, echoing familiar themes to readers of this blog: Cameron is campaigning largely on a spurious
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What is tax for? A lesson for David Cameron in six tweets
In 2012 I was asked to explain what tax was for in six tweets. This is what I wrote. In view of his announcement on tax this
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The no chocolate biscuits law, 2015
I have a confession to make. However I look at myself there is just a little too much of me. Only a few kilos, maybe,
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If this is the message Ed Miliband was right to talk to Russell Brand
Of course the right wing press will say this was a mistake. But if the message is tax justice, I’m more than happy for it
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