The government issued this statement yesterday: New guidance to support teachers in tackling sensitive issues in the classroom in a politically impartial way is being
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Is the government conspiring to create inflation?
In my regular column for The National in Scotland, published yesterday, I put forward a hypothesis about the government’s attitude towards inflation. Much of the argument
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So much for green crap
I was very interested to note an article by Simon Evans for Carbon Brief yesterday, although it was actually published in January. As he noted,
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How long can KPMG last?
I wrote this article for AccountingWEB, of which I was once an editor. It was out yesterday: You can read the whole thing here. There
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Climate change reporting is not possible if the companies creating emissions do not have to report the cost to them of eliminating them
The FT has a headline this morning that says: At the same time, the Guardian has front pages news that: The contents of the stories
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Companies House is currently a supplier of licensed identities available for the purposes of fraud and corruption
Prof Prem Sikka, my old tax justice friend who now sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer, has been asking a series
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Why did the Tories permit Golden Visas that clearly assisted money laundering for so long?
The FT has a headline this morning that says: As the related report notes: The UK is preparing to abolish its so-called “golden visa” regime
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We have a pension system unsuited to modern patterns of property ownership and occupation
I noticed this data in a press release from Hargreaves Lansdown this week: Renters were much less likely than homeowners to be on track to
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An award opportunity for young tax researchers
Brigitte Alepin of the Canadian based TaxCOOP has drawn this to my attention: CA$ 10 000 prizes will be awarded to four projects with the
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