I am one of sixteen authors to have contributed chapters to this new book: Available here and elsewhere, no doubt. My contribution is on country-by-country reporting.
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I’d recommend an article by Tom Clark in the Guardian, published sometime yesterday I think in which he concluded: The question endlessly put to the
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HMRC have published new figures on tax receipts today that let me look at one of the critical assumptions underpinning George Osborne’s plans for a
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HMRC have published the results of a survey that they have undertaken on people’s attitudes towards tax avoidance this morning. This is, perhaps, the most
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I have to take Donald Trump seriously. We all do. Some Americans are convinced by him. The Pope has taken him seriously. And said what
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I have already posted my speaking notes from an event last night where I talked about where I saw Labour’s economic policy going. I should
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I spoke at an event organised by my department at City University last night on ‘Labour’s View of the World’. Unsurprisingly I concentrated on the
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Oil prices are low. You may have noticed. And now the markets are. They are reacting in two ways. First, they have realised that low
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I am well aware that when it comes to the politics of EU leader summits predicting anything is hard. But today is a crunch day
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