If there is one thing that we now have to accept as certain that we would rather not do it is that we have a
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Standards in public life fall when the unethical run government, at cost to us all.
The revelation that a senior civil servant was working for Greensill whilst still at the Cabinet Office, to which Lex Greensill was an adviser, has
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Not so U shaped after all
Do you remember all those who confidently said that we’d have a U shaped recession and that the recovery from Covid would be an immediate
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In the FT
The FT featured an article by me yesterday on the Biden tax plan: Under FT rules I am not allowed to reproduce the article here,
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The Cameron inquiry might just be an elaborate cover up for new opportunities for the abuse of government that are to come
I am well aware that the supposed inquiry into David Cameron’s obeying is said to be all about whether he complied with lobbying rules or
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It’s time for Jersey to join the international tax community
I was interested in this comment in yesterday’s yesterday’s Jersey Evening Post: JERSEY’S zero-ten company taxation system is nearing its ‘sell-by date’ and needs to
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The Whiteness of Wealth
I am pleased to share this special, and longer than usual, edition of the Tax Justice Network’s taxcast. I think the theme, on the link
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Where is the UK government on Biden’s tax plan? Is Johnson intending to come out as the friend of tax havens?
I wrote about the Biden tax plan last week. I mentioned that it might raise an estimated £13.5bn pa for the UK at the weekend. And
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It really is time we had economists who could join the dots
The FT headlines an interview between Martin Wolf and Larry Summers, the former Democrat Treasury Secretary, this morning with the headline: I have to say
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