The Daily Mail has covered the new TJN report on unitary tax and how it would impact on HSBC and Barclays. And, in the process they’ve
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Barclays and HSBC make the case for unitary tax in the UK – because we’d have collected £2.6 billion more in 4 years
Since 2009, HSBC and Barclays bank may well have underpaid UK corporation tax to the tune of £2.6 billion. This figure represents the difference between
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Barclays, its crime was to be abnormally exploitative
As the FT notes this morning: Barclays should lower warped pay levels, end the bank’s “entitlement culture” and usher in a spirit of “transparency and
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The real problem with banking is we’ve only just got to the stage of criticising. When will we get to solutions?
The Guardian business web site tells us a lot about banking this morning: So, Barclays were bastards, RBS were allegedly conmen, HBOS were incompetent and Lloyds were mugs.
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The Salz review of Barclays: a whitewash on tax
I never expected an internally appointed review of Barclays to greatly rock the boat, and the Salz review doesn’t. This is all it concludes on tax: Barclays
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Barclays was dysfunctional, but our government has the same goals, styles and policies, and that’s really worrying
I have just begun to dip into the Salz report on Barclays’ investment banking division. I will not pretend to have read it all, but a paragraph (I’ve
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If Barclays capped pay at £500,000 everyone earning less in the bank could have a pay rise of more then £2,000 a year
I write yesterday about the pay at Barclays. Then a commentator on the blog talked about the impact of a bonus cap at Barclays. I
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Barclays: a tale of the 2.6% living off the rest
Barclays has published a table on the remuneration of its employees in its accounts this year. This is it (page 96): I’ve reworked that data like this:
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Barclays’ new tax principles look very like a licence to undertake tax avoidance to me
These are Barclays’ tax principles, according to their presentation made today: (Click on the file for a bigger version) Are you convinced that means an
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