The IFS issued the following statement yesterday under the title ‘Time for Tax Reform’: Our process for making overall tax policy is, and has been
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76% of large companies are ‘most worried about country-by-country reporting’
I was amused by this comment in the newsletter of the International Financial Centres Forum yesterday (I do read the strangest things): Country-by-Country reporting is
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A special form of indifference to human suffering
I admit that I am no great fan of Chris Giles at the FT, but I had no idea that he was quite as unpleasant
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The creeping hand of financial control is extending its reach
The Guardian and other media carry reports that Camila Batmanghelidjh is being, in her opinion, forced to resign from the charity Kids Company. The government claims
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Yesterday at the EU
This is the video of the presentation I made to the TAXE committee of the EU yesterday. Begin at about 1 hour ten minutes. The
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Shall we get rid of democracy?
I noted this in the FT this morning: Fortunately for the UK, the previous coalition government at least pushed infrastructure higher up the political agenda
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If only the EU
Every time I am in Brussels I suffer from the same torn emotion based on the idea of ‘if only’: if only the aim had
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Grey hair and tax havens
I’m writing rather early in the morning in Brussels. Jean Claude Juncker pulled out of this morning’s TAXE committee hearing in the EU Parliament, suggesting
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Pension tax reliefs cost £48 billion a year
Yesterday the Centre for Policy Studies claimed that pensioner households that received more in income from the state than they p[aid in tax were a
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