From the Guardian’s letters page this morning: I note that £238m of PAYE was overpaid in 2009-10, up 148% on the previous year. This couldn’t
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John Grieve Smith, a fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge has written in the Observer: Cutting public services is not going to be politically popular. At
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The Guardian notes: Thousands of taxpayers were overcharged in 2009-10 by HM Revenue & Customs, which collected an "unacceptable" £238m too much tax as a
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There’s an excellent article by Jill Segger under the above title in Ekklesia. I offer this sample and recommend the rest: During my adult life,
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Members of the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development and other signatories identified three key points for the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
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All organisations create it. All need to be detoxed occasionally. Tax systems included. One of my objectives for a good tax system is that it
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There was a great letter inn the jersey Evening Post yesterday from my friend Pat Lucas. It said: THE JEP (1 June) reports that Jersey
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There’s another new briefing sheet out, published today, on financial transparency. It’s available for download here and says: Introduction Transparency is at the core of
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Introduction I am often asked what I mean by "’tax justice’. As a result, and as a contribution to the Briefing Sheet series I am
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