This report from Reuters seems to have attracted little follow in news coverage, and yet sums up all too well just what the state of
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The October Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network
In the October 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast the Taxcast: We speak to Nicholas Shaxson about his new book The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us
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The economic consequences of no deal
I know I said I would not be blogging over the last few days, but that gave me time to think. I thought about the
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Country-by-country reporting could raise £2.5 billion a year for the UK. So why aren’t we using it?
This post was written by Alex Cobham, chief executive of the Tax Justice Network and originally posted on their blog: 15 years ago the Tax Justice Network proposed
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It’s the coincidence of sentiment that provokes fear in markets and that’s happening right now
I wrote this in 2o10: The quantitative easing programme might be considered a short term success, but as we note, the benefit has been captured
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Fisking the NAO’s report on the UK’s border preparedness for Brexit
The National Audit Office has issued a report today on the UK’s preparedness for border controls as and when Brexit happens (as I think it will, I
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The best outcome from Brexit is likely to be a SHIT deal
I was trying to explain our Brexit options to someone not quite convinced they were so limited last night. I ended up explaining that we
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Funding the NHS
My country
My country? What does that mean? Which country? When it does not know? The one of my birth? Or the one of my forebears? And
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