This is the start of the foreword from a new OECD book on inequality: But, apparently, wishing to address these issues makes you in the
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Watch this hearing before the Public Accounts Committee from 15.52 onwards where Dame Lin Homer is questioned about the Amazon and eBay VAT scandals. Lin
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The government has just issued this press release: Figures published today (Thursday 14 January 2016) by the European Investment Bank (EIB) show that investment by
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If there is agreement on an economic issue in the UK it is that we need more investment. Whether in housing, energy, infrastructure, training, business,
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I am fascinated to note a very recent contribution from an Isle of Man lawyer to the somewhat limited literature on tax havens and human
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As the Guardian reports: HM Revenue and Customs has wound up its inquiries into claims that hundreds of British customers used HSBC’s Swiss bank to
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The mood in the financial press is sombre this morning. From the possibility of a major downturn being the view of a few Cassandras (like
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Martin Wolf writes in the FT this morning with reference to the Japanese economy: The real problem is the weakness of private demand. The indicator
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I am aware that there are those who think that I am at my best when I stick to tax issues, which many think my
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