There is always a danger that you might get what you hope for. I mention the point because many on the left want there to
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Questions for Danske Bank’s ex CEO
Ask yourself a question. You open a bank in a country known to be attracting money launderers. Call it Estonia. You choose not to put
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Northern Ireland has already got a tax border in the Irish Sea so let’s stop pretending otherwise
Theresa May and the Unionist politicians of Northern Ireland are somewhat disingenuous when it comes to their argument that there should be no border down
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Hem line economics
Amongst the many things I do not claim to be is a fashion aficionado. If style is your thing then this is probably not the
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Beating the tax gap
I am on my way to Brussels this morning to speak at an EU Parliament event organised by the Socialist and Democrats Group of MEPs
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Ordinary lives matter
From John Harris in the Guardian this morning: [E]ach time I have gone back to Walsall, what I have heard people express with the greatest
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The tour’s been disrupted
I suggested last week that I was starting what seemed like a mini-tour over the next few weeks. Well, not everything goes to plan. My father died
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We need a new approach to banking
I had an article in the Daily Mirror on Saturday on the tenth anniversary of Lehman and what it meant. You can read the online version here.
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KPMG’s tax illiteracy
I have been sent an article by Chris Morgan, KPMG head of tax in the UK. It has been written in advance of an event
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