The Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange, Clara Furse, has had a rant about taxation. According to Accountancy Age she said: We (public companies)
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I’ve blogged on this issue before. And I’ll say it again. The rules for appointing the next President of the World Bank (and IMF come
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I watched Panorama last night. It was by John Sweeney. It was about the Church of Scientology. It attracted some considerable advance attention because consistent
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According to the Ethical Corporation the UK government’s commitment to corporate responsibility has been downgraded somewhat. The DTI has a minister whose portfolio includes corporate
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Barclays ‘Head of Wealth Operations’ has been writing to his customers…. To tell them that running an offshore bank account may not always have been
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Bloomberg has a story about Harvard, Yale and Stanford universities being investigated by the Senate Finance Committee in the US. All three are, of course,
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As the Daily Telegraph has reported: Tesco is shipping CDs and DVDs to Switzerland and back in order to save customers as little as £1.56
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It’s always pleasant to find people agreeing with you. The FT’s editorial today says: At the very least, it is time to rethink what we
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Paul Wolfowitz may not be an elected politician, but he’s certainly part of the US political elite, if for no other reason than having been
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