I am writing this as I am about to leave Kilkenny in Ireland, having done five gigs on Friday and Saturday at the Kilkenomics festival of,
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Putting pension funds to work for the UK economy
I am delighted to see a new report out from Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute deputy director Dr Craig Berry published today. As SPERI says of
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The Chartered Institute of Tax should not turn a blind eye to uncollected revenue
I found the following quote published by the Chartered Institute of Tax in response to Public Accounts Committee criticism of HMRC rather bizarre: Chris Jones,
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In praise of The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens, by Gabriel Zucman
Mark Carney is going to make life harder for George Osborne
As the FT notes this morning: Mark Carney said the Bank of England would consider making it harder for lenders to extend credit, in order
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The Bank of England agreed to do another £6.3 billion of quantitative easing today
The Bank of England announced today: At its meeting ending on 4 November 2015, the MPC ….. voted unanimously to maintain the stock of purchased
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It really is time for the EU to tackle tax dodging
The following letter, to which I am a signatory, is in the Guardian this morning: One year ago, the LuxLeaks scandal revealed publicly the content
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Rangers FC: common sense prevails
Hallelujah! The Court of Appeal used common sense in its approach to the Rangers FC Employment Benefit Trust appeal and ruled for HMRC. I rather
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Global recovery? I don’t think so. And it would pass the UK by anyway
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard argues in the Telegraph this morning that: The damp kindling wood of global economic recovery is poised to catch fire. For the first
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