Larry Elliott used this graph in the Guardian on Friday: I have prepared a more detailed version in this paper. At one level you could
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The EU’s tax haven list is likely to be another whitewash
It has been widely reported that the EU is to prepare a new official list of tax havens. This, no doubt, will be linked to
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Is the world buying less ‘stuff’?
The Guardian he reported that: Goldenport, one of the last shipping companies left on the London Stock Exchange, has delisted from the market and sold
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The April TaxCast from the Tax Justice Network
In the April 2016 Taxcast: in this month’s extended podcast we discuss the biggest offshore leak in history, the #PanamaPapers. Could it provide an opportunity
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The case for investment tax reliefs has been lost. Let’s get on and replace them with an industrial strategy
I note this by Adam Palin in the FT in an article discussing film investment partnerships, against which HMRC has secured a notable victory on
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It’s time to re-embrace nationalisation, when it’s appropriate
In all but name the government is going to nationalise parts of the steel industry. Three thoughts. First, it should admit it. But it isn’t.
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Part nationalising Tata Steel will not cost the tax payer money
The government announced yesterday that they are willing to take a stake of 25% in Tata Steel and make loans of hundreds of millions of
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An analysis of the government’s new plan to crack down on corruption
I share this blog with the permission of Robert Palmer of Global Witness, whose own work in the area has been outstanding: Today the government
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Attention may be elsewhere
Blogging may be light over the next few days. After a frantic period I am taking a few days off, during which time we will
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