On Monday I asked of the Big 4 accountants: Which firm has the most offices in any one country? And which country is it? There
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The EU on the CCCTB
The EU officially launched the revived Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base yesterday. For the record I thought it worth sharing their press release on the
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Are the ghost ships that said they sailed to tax havens disappearing from global trade?
Martin Wolf has an article in the FT today in which he asks why world trade is slowing. He offers three possible causes when asking:
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The rise of renewables makes the continuing case for a Green New Deal
As the FT reports in an email this morning: Renewables have overtaken coal as the world’s largest source of power capacity and the sector is
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Will Labour have the sense to sit out the Richmond by-election?
In the latest twist in his uncomfortable political career Zac Holdsmith has resigned as an MP to fight a by-election in his Richmond-on-Thames constituency, supposedly
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Philanthropy and tax avoidance: too close for comfort
Alliance magazine, which is dedicated to the subject if high end philanthropy, sent me an email yesterday that promoted an article with the following teaser:
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An Austerity Brexit budget can’t be ruled out after all
Most people thought George Osborne’s talk of an emergency Brexit budget was a mistake in June. It alienated voters and fuelled talk of Project Fear.
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