The FT has reported that: A fifth of Britain’s businesses are still stuck in “survival mode”, unable or unwilling to invest to improve their productivity,
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There’s a letter in today’s Guardian from Prof Mike Devereux of the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation. In it he claims that: Zoe Williams (G2, 23
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The next financial crisis? We look at offshore and the trillion dollar derivatives market. Plus: we discuss how Mexico’s trying to force multinational companies to
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John Gapper has an article in the FT this morning headed: Volkswagen’s deception is a warning to every company Suddenly, behaviour that was common practice
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The FT posted this comment yesterday and I missed it at the time: Labour’s new shadow chancellor has got at least one thing right. Amid
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The FT has reported that: London has swapped places with New York to become the world’s leading financial centre, according to a detailed study of
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HMRC issued a breathy press release overnight saying: HMRC has collected £1 billion in tax payments from users of tax avoidance schemes as a result
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This extract comes from a speech from the Bank of England’s Minouche Shafik: A key means by which the Bank of England pursues its mission of
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I wish George Osborne believed in Britain. Not just in a fly-pass enjoying, tub-thumping sort of way. But in its capacity to deliver. And I
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