As John McTernan, Tony Blair’s political secretary, has noted in The Guardian: Keir Starmer has everything going for him. However, as he then notes: Or
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Simon Wren-Lewis has a rather nice quote on his Mainly Macro blog this week when he notes during a discussion of neoliberalism: Colin Crouch in
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The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales published an article this week in which they noted: Since 10 July 2023, an HMRC taskforce
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I realised that the glossary was missing some key entries yesterday. As a result, I have added three new items: Tax arbitrage Tax arbitrage refers
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You might have missed yesterday’s editorial on inflation in the Guardian. This said: Why should ordinary households be made poorer when a few groups operating
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It’s hard to believe that there is a Covid inquiry going on right now, one of whose major findings is bound to be that the
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The ONS released data on Uk company profitability yesterday about which they noted: The profitability of private non-financial corporations (PNFCs) grew by 0.1 percentage points
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I was first involved in writing about Microsoft’s tax affairs in November 2005 when work I did was quoted in the Wall Street Journal (paywall).
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Interest rates on UK 10-year gilts and US ten-year Treasuries hit levels last seen before the 2008 global financial crisis yesterday: The UK rate, as
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