It’s a little shocking to have arrived tonight in a country where the second richest man, who is the subject of fraud allegations and does
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Is inequality going up or down?
I have known Max Lawson, head of advocacy and pubic policy at Oxfam for longer than either of us probably care to recall. Most weekends
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The end of Tory rule is possible
The Conservative Party exists for a reason. The most successful political party in the history of democracy has, for centuries, served the sole purpose of
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The threat to the UK’s tax base
A journalist asked me three questions on threats to the UK’s tax base in the next decade this morning, in writing. I thought I’d share
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If you’ll forgive me
After three weeks of near constant travel, talks, presentations, seminars and the like I am taking a couple of quieter days before getting on a
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Taxi ranks cannot be worth $10 billion unless some conditions are attached
I have an innate sense for crass commercial valuations, based largely on seeing too many. So my antennae where pulsing when I read this in
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Common Space: the case for national companies
We all have our favourite blogs. I am well aware this is not the only one there is. One of my favourites is Common Space,
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Steven Mnuchin has resolved the debate on the incidence of corporation tax
The FT issued an email last night saying: Steven Mnuchin warns of market fall without tax cuts. The US Treasury secretary warned Congress that US
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Public country-by-country reporting is going to happen
I am greatly amused by an article in the latest Cayman Financial Review with the title: Compulsory public country-by-country reporting and CCCTB — harbingers of
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