I took part in a fascinating round table discussion on macro-economics yesterday. Many quite well known names were present. Th debate was lively and focussed
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The government published draft regulations to enforce country-by-country reporting for tax purposes by multinational corporations yesterday. The regime, which is already hopelessly inadequate by denying the public the
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George Osborne has to be one of the least opaque men on earth. The past master of delivering what looks to be a cunning plan,
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Alex Cobham of the Tax Justice Network discusses the ups and downs of the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting process and country-by-country reporting:

I noted one response to the OECD BEPS process yesterday and made several to the press, but I still think it worth sharing the Tax Justice
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As the Guardian notes this afternoon: Jeremy Hunt says tax credit cuts will help to teach British to work as hard as the Chinese The
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This press release has been issued by the BEPS Monitoring Group of which I am a member: The publication today of the final reports of the
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Some years ago I began writing a blog called Enough Economics. It didn’t get far because the ideas became the middle third of The Courageous State
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My suggestion of a new bank transaction tax aimed at discouraging conspicuous consumption because of its progressive nature has attracted some interest. As I make
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