Neoliberalism did not just “happen”. It was planned, funded, and carefully rolled out over decades. In this conversation with John Christensen, co-founder of the Tax
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Country-by-country reporting is working
I was pleased to note this email from the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) yesterday: I recently highlighted my own critical role in
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Tax transparency really matters
The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), the International Budget Partnership (IBP) and the University of Sheffield have launched a major new training programme on
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We don’t need a wealth tax, yet
This morning’s video sees me back in front of the camera. The antibiotics are working. In this video, I note that there is a lot
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There is going to be no growth in the UK. Welcome to a world of Labour austerity and the resulting downward spiral of gloom and failure.
As the Guardian notes this morning: The UK’s economic outlook has worsened this year as high interest rates and the lingering effects of last year’s
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Why is the OECD so sure that interest rates need to stay high?
As the FT reported last night: The OECD today delivered a gloomy outlook for the global economy, highlighting sticky inflation, a softening of growth, slower
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The UK has poor public services and a rapidly increasing tax cost. It’s a recipe for discontent.
If you believed the UK’s media this country is massively overtaxed. The OECD has published new data which challenges this idea. Data for the OECD
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Why I think the tax justice movement is irresponsible to promote the transfer of responsibility for international tax agreements from the OECD to the United Nations
I was, for reasons that are of no relevance here, asked in the last week to justify why I have described many organisations within the
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Would the UN do a better job on international tax than the OECD?
Dr Rasmus Christensen is a postdoctoral researcher at Copenhagen Business School. We know each other. Indeed, we are both working on the Time Mirror project
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