The collective denial of tax abusers is one of the things that characterises their behaviour. It does not really matter which of the three parties
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Jersey: still occupied
The Jersey Evening Post reported yesterday that: Last month External Relations Minister Ian Gorst announced that Jersey was following the UK by introducing a ‘settled-status’
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The UK’s VAT gap – my evidence to the Treasury Committee
I gave evidence to the EU parliament last week on the VAT tax gap. This morning our parliament has published evidence I submitted to them
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Accountancy, corruption, ethics and offshore
I spent a fascinating afternoon yesterday with Prof Dan Ostas of the University of Oklahoma. We weren’t near a prairie. Instead we sat by the
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Why did business take so long to work out Brexit?
A couple of people have, of late, asked why it is that it has taken so long for business to react to the Brexit fiasco.
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Stock markets look ever more like Ponzi schemes
The FT has reported this morning that: Debt at UK listed companies has soared to hit a record high of £390bn as companies have scrambled
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No wonder Boris Johnson wants to ‘f**k business’: he and his colleagues have already ‘f**ked the government’
I read Isabel Hardman’s piece on Theresa May’s failure to address social care in The Observer yesterday. It was damning, especially coming from a member
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How accountants broke capitalism
I am posting the Tax Justice Network Taxcast late: that’s something due to being under the weather when it came out last week: We’ve had
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HBOS – fraud, cover-up and consistent public exploitation
The following is a guest post by Professor Atul K. Shah reflects on the implications of the ‘Turnbull Report’ on HBOS, recently leaked: A Bank is
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