During the hearing on VAT fraud to which I gave evidence yesterday I was asked how tax authorities should respond to the threat from crypto-currencies.
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The Guardian has reported tbhi morning that: Deputy governor Jon Cunliffe told BBC radio this morning that he’s concerned about families with high debt levels.
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It’s now more than 15 years since I chaired the first ever public meeting of the Tax Justice Network, held in the House of Commons
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A very senior economist of my acquaintance said this in an email today (due to Chatham House rules I cannot disclose who): If mainstream monetary
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I have already noted the information I supplied on VAT fraud in advance of the hearing of the Tax3 Committee of the EU Parliament that
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I am presenting evidence to the EU Parliament’s Tax3 Committee this morning on VAT fraud. In advance of the hearing the Committee asked for my
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If evidence was required that politics is not simple, then the fact that the Tories are at war with each other provides it. This is
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I wrote my blog on the objectives of economic policy and the role of the Bank of England within it yesterday for a reason. It
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The KISS principle is that people should ‘Keep It Simple, Stupid’. The problem is that politicians think they have to do just that. The result was
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