As The Guardian reported yesterday: The UK’s drastically diminished aid budget is the “new normal,” the development minister, Jenny Chapman, has said, as she claimed
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The National Audit Office (NAO) issued a report yesterday that suggested: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) defines wealthy individuals as those earning more than £200,000
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The world has national debt of more than $100 trillion – and the income from that goes to the world’s wealthiest people more than anyone
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I thought it worth sharing this video from Prem Sikka, who is an old friend of mine, another Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University
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Why doesn’t the UK government care about the fact that UK company law is not enforced? What is the point of having law that they
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Clive Parry posted this comment on the blog this morning: As you know, I support all your suggestions in the Taxing Wealth Report. However, I
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This chart comes from the House of Commons Library. They, in turn, took it from the Office for National Statistics What it shows is four
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This is in the Express today: The rest is here. They suggest people should brace themselves for what I have to say, which is really
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Once upon a time, tax havens hid billions from the view of the world’s tax authorities. Then they caused massive disruption. But now, their opacity
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