This was in the Huffington Post yesterday: Large parts of our country have been neglected for more decades, with no real industrial strategy. Our national
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George Osborne’s £27.8 billion give away to business
After each budget I have a habit of looking at how the forecast changes in tax revenues for each major tax over the next few
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Is there any real new investment in HMRC? I’m not convinced
This press release was issued by the Association for Revenue & Customs, the union that represents the tope grade of staff at HMRC this afternoon:
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The EU Parliament votes for public country-by-country reporting
This press release wasa put out by several NGOs campaigning for country-by-country reporting an hour or so ago: Today, the European Parliament voted in favour
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Sorry to those on twitter
i put this tweet out amongst many others whilst listening to the budget sppeech. Tax abuse plans. Osborne says blatant anuses have stopped. £750 million
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The budget in 700 words
Budgets are deeply political events, but Osborne grabbed his only chance of having a workable majority in this parliament to deliver a complex, large and
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If Osborne talks Greece and not China today he’s lost the plot
George Osborne will talk Greece today. He’ll doubtless say that Greece makes the case for austerity. He’ll be wrong in doing so. The Greeks had
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The antidote to today’s euphoric messages
All Chancellors of all parties do, without exception, sing their own praises. It goes with the job. George Osborne will do it today. But here’s
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Greece has been good news for China
Whilst markets and the media have obsessed about Greece China;s stock market, and with it the hopes of many middle class Chinese savers, have gone
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