Texas energy company TXU was subject to a $45 billion private equity buy out this week. Now Texas, home (surely) to more libertarians than most
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On Tuesday I blogged about tax relief and private equity. It’s good to see the Guardian publishing the ink on paper version of this story
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Accountancy Age has reported that Micahel O’Leary of Ryanair has been attacking Gordon brown again : O’Leary has not let up with his attack on
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It’s good to see Cayman NetNews quoting me quoting them on the subject to their editorial on poverty in their island. Coupled with yesterday’s report
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The Guardian ran a special feature on private equity on Saturday. It referred to the tax incentives associated with this activity, but missed the essence
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The Observer has reported that Action Aid has commissioned ICM to undertake a poll to find out how much the UK government really spends on
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The Economist published a review of offshore finance as a supplement with last weeks edition (24 February 2007). Most is not available free on the
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Valentin Petkantchin wrote an article in this morning’s FT attacking the EU’s policy on tax havens. I’ll be unsubtle about the article. It’s confused, illogical,
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There was a stunning editorial on Cayman NetNews yesterday. It was entitled ‘The gap between rich and poor’. I would love to quote it in
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