I’ve already mentioned Boris Johnson’s vacuous thinking this morning. Now we have more evidence. Since becoming Mayor of London in May Boris has created an
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The FT has reported: Ireland, easily the best performing eurozone economy since the birth of the single currency, on Thursday became the first in the
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George Osborne wrote a letter to Alistair Darling on Friday as a consequence of the reported news that Regus, Charter and Henderson are all leaving
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So three more companies are planning to leave the UK. Let’s as usual set this in context: Charter has not paid UK tax and has
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The ICAEW and CIOT have jointly written to the Treasury asking that the current review on the future of UK corporation tax be expanded. I
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Jim Stewart from Trinity, Dublin gave a fantastic paper at the TJN conference a week or so back showing that Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre
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The Irish have a Tax Commission in progress at present. It’s latest mad idea in a country that already seems to believe that tax abuse
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I have mentioned, mainly in del.ic.ious comments, the real possibility that in my opinion Ireland might be expelled from the European Union. I was, therefore,
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I haven’t written about Bono for a while, although what I have written about him remains among the regularly read pages on this blog. It’s
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