Polly Toynbee is typically blunt in this morning’s Guardian. She laments that: Labour never talks up its children’s programme except to the poverty charities. But
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Accountancy Age has reported that the Budget should raise £1.7 billion form anti avoidance measures, most aimed at companies. This, of course, is welcome, but
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I met with Tim Voak, Group Tax Director and Emma Reynolds, head of Government Affairs at Tescos yesterday. It’s true that they had not planned
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Tescos was avoiding stamp duty in its Cayman joint ventures. This has been stopped in the budget. The budget notes say: Who is likely to
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What budget? After 30 minutes I’ve found nothing to comment upon bar: 1) Domicile rule changes are confirmed as published,a nd will not change again
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For those who don’t know today is UK budget day. This is what I want to hear and might hope for: 1) A commitment to
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I note that 31 MPs from a cross section of parties have signed the follwoing Early Day Motion in Parliament: TESCO AND TAX03.03.2008 Mitchell, Austin
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Mike Devereux at Oxford University must be very fed up with the CBI today. Mike spends all his time going round arguing that companies don’t
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Brendan Barber has a good article on the Guardian web site. As he says: This week’s budget will show whether ministers grasp a distinct change
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