am aware that I said I wanted a day off yesterday, but I watched slow television on BBC4 last night and added a pile of
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The failings of Companies House
I published this glossary entry under the title of the Registrar of Companies yesterday. I am trying to add between ten and fifteen entries a
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Is it time to make tax avoidance illegal?
I wrote this tweet yesterday: We can apparently legislate to make the intention to protest peacefully a crime but we can’t apparently legislate to make
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The Republicans are seeking to defund the US tax authority. How long will it be before the Tories copy them?
The Republicans in the US House of Representatives took a long time to agree on a Speaker last week. But having done so, they got
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The tax gap: the biggest waste of all?
This tweet has links to an article by me for Bylines: The Bylines Network special feature article this month comes from @RichardJMurphy, who explains how
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Fraud is implicit within neoliberalism’s rotten culture
Over the last two decades I have spent quite a lot of time tackling the issue of corruption. Tackling tax evasion has always been a
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If we want a decent society ministers have to take their duties to regulate, to tax and to stamp out criminal abuse seriously. Ours treat all three as unnecessary.
There was an article in the Sunday Times yesterday on the creation of what are being called ‘burner companies’. The links are in this Tweet
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Is Truss signalling that she wants flat taxes for the UK?
I heard Liz Truss say to Laura Kuenssberg that she wanted a simpler UK tax system this morning. I immediately tweeted this: Then I noticed
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