Theresa May is getting desperate. Yesterday she revived lines first popularised by a man she likes so much she sacked him in as humiliating a
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Mapping tax spillovers
I am presenting at the Tax Justice Network conference this morning. I will be discussing the paper I have written with Professor Andrew Baker of Sheffield Political Economy
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Rangers! Ramsay’s back in town
I have not had a chance to read the full Supreme Court decision on Rangers in detail as yet. I was too tired last night
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The Big Four: the questions our new report poses
The GUE / NGL group in the EU parliament have published this video discussion of the report on the Big Four accountants that Saila Stausholm
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The national debt costs us, in net terms, precisely nothing a year but that’s apparently too costly for the next generation to bear
I have been asked to comment on the paranoia some on the political right are displaying at present about the cost of interest on the
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Why are the Big Four so heavily over-represented in tax havens?
The work that Saila Stausholm and I have undertaken on the Big Four firms of accountants and auditors has sought to establish a number of
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Is the Bank of England engineering a financial crisis? And if so, why?
I am worried about the Bank of England and what it is up to. It’s not the first time I have been so, of course,
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Why does the car leasing sector pose such a threat to financial stability?
I have noted the concerns the Bank of England obviously has about the stability of the personal debt market on a number of occasions now,
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Should the Big Four firms of accountants be as opaque as they are, and what should we do about it?
The GUE/NGL group in the EU parliament published a report by Saila Stausholm of Copenhagen Business School and myself this morning. The report, which is
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