I think it’s time to stop the nonsense that it’s only those who voted Remain who want parliament to be fully involved in the Brexit
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Might the EU list the UK and its territories as tax havens after Brexit?
The Jersey Evening Post has reported: JERSEY could be left vulnerable to being blacklisted as a ‘tax haven’ by the EU as the UK’s influence
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Small island secrecy jurisdictions
I am speaking at the following conference next week: I suspect I am providing the contrarian view on Tuesday morning. I think the event is
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Brexit questions that the government could and should answer
The government says it cannot publish a white paper on Brexit for fear of disclosing its negotiating hand to the EU. But I think it
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Brexit has been a mess from the start. And it will be to the end.
We are in a Brecit mess. Here’s the first reason, from the Supreme Court decision today; The 2016 referendum is of great political significance. However,
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The last thing Theresa May is going to look today is anything like being remotely in control
I am teaching much of today and may have little time to react to the Article 50 ruling. I do, in any case, accept that
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The fact is that Brexit was the wrong answer to a badly formed question
There’s a theme emerging in the new international political economy post-Brexit. The US is willing to offer the UK a trade deal, with a condition
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Of all the ways to do corporation tax reform Trump has found the worst
Donald Trump appears to be proposing new tax regimes in the USA that are specifically intended to be punitive. As the FT put it yesterday:
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2017 is not looking good economically
The papers are saying we should expect lower growth in 2017 than 2016. Is that reasonable? Here’s a few reasons why that might well be
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