2016 September 16

Is withholding tax the way to beat non-taxation?

Posted on September 16 2016

The FT has just reported that: Apple has been forced to pay ¥12bn of back taxes to the Japanese authorities in a new controversy over
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John McDonnell’s crisis

Posted on September 16 2016

The Telegraph has found a 2013 video of John McDonnell saying he is a Marxist, that the capitalist system that failed in 2008 does not
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There is a new party of protest in the UK and it seems to be the LibDems

Posted on September 16 2016

A week ago Labour lest a council by-election in Sheffield to the Lib Dems on a massive swing and it was dismissed as a freak
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Alex Brooker presenting a truly great bit of television

Posted on September 16 2016

This is a brilliant piece of television that I happened to catch when I finally got in last night: And his friends’ reaction afterwards was
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We are not and never will be dependent on bond markets

Posted on September 16 2016

There was an article on the UK gilts market in the FT yesterday by Elaine Moore. Published under its ‘long read’ banner this one really
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Brexit means that the EU can rightfully turn on the UK’s tax havens

Posted on September 16 2016

The Guardian reported last night that: Eight British overseas territories and crown dependencies, including Jersey, the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands, could face EU
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Tax, devolution and the chance that this will end in tears

Posted on September 16 2016

I addressed a group of parliamentary researchers who were meeting at the National Assembly in Cardiff yesterday. Drawn from all of the UK’s parliaments and
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Active fund management: an exercise in damaging wealth

Posted on September 16 2016

I could not help but smile at this report in the FT this morning: Nine out of ten US equity funds failed to beat the
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