Try this for a sobering start to the week. Provident Financial will offer you a loan of £500 over 23 weeks repayable at £32 a
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I recently mentioned my occasional involvement in the campaign to impose an interest rate cap on those lenders who charge exorbitant fees in the secondary
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Companies the world over seem to call for two things. The first is a simplified tax code. The second are lower tax rates. Nowhere though
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I’ve been called by quite a lot of news agencies about the Bono story, which has not hit the New York Times. This is what
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The Guardian did a feature on private equity yesterday. There was a response from the industry today. What was disappointing about the article, and this
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In researching ‘Closing the Floodgates’ for TJN I came across a number of web sites offering anonymous debit card accounts. Most (but not all) are
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It’s good to see that some stories just run and run. Bono’s use of the Netherlands to minimise his tax bills is one of them.
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I have been reading the opinion of the Special Commissioner who heard the applications from the Revenue to obtain information from four UK high street
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The Wall Street Journal did one of its regular, and well researched reports on tax last week. I was so bogged down in writing the
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