Paul Wolfowitz is to join the American Enterprise Institute, according to the FT. Having been drummed out of the World Bank for his unethical practices
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Oxford Centre for Business Taxation – a clarification
I have been asked by senior academics at the above Centre to clarify my blog, posted on Monday. They have made clear to me none
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Grant Thornton – tax is just cash
Heather Self, a partner in Grant Thornton in the UK has probably come out with the quote of the day at Oxford (so far). She
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Corporate taxes are a political issue – not an economic one
Down here in Oxford an academic took me aside to discuss my comments on Mike Devereux’s work, published hereon Monday. His argument was that a
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Oxford Centre for Business Taxation – how do they choose their samples?
I’m at Oxford today and tomorrow for the annual conference of its Centre for Business Taxation. My views on the work of the Centre are
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Prince of Wales made ICAEW honorary member
Somehow I missed this. I can only guess it’s for tax dodging. No one asked me for my consent. If I had I’d have referred
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Inequality harms everyone – except, maybe the very, very rich
The Guardian is running a series on inequality this week. If it’s as good as its opening article then it will be excellent. Read this
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Health inequality
I sometimes wish we could have articles in the accountancy press of the sort that are published in magazines like the British Medical Journal. Last
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Tax havens are evil
I didn’t say that. It was said to me by a prosecutor of those who use tax haven services in furtherance of corrupt activities whilst
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