I’m delighted for my friend Eva Joly: she has been elected a Green MEP in France. As the Guardian reports: What’s left of French politics
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The Task Force gets a web site
The Task Force for Financial Integrity and Economic Development (on whose committee I sit) has got a new web site. It also has a new
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What has Obama done?
There’s mighty stink in the US corporate world this morning about Barack Obama’s attack on offshore. According to the FT: “It is the wrong idea,
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Obama goes for offshore
These are today’s press releases from the White House: Leveling the Playing Field: Curbing Tax Havens and Removing Tax Incentives For Shifting Jobs Overseas There
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That brain drain
Paul Sagar, who blogs at Liberal Conspiracy, has more on the brain drain that the Right claims will happen as a result of the 50%
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Hear, hear
There are those who are honest about the 50% tax rate. This is part of a letter in the FT. Read it all: Sir, Like
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‘Name and shame’ tax havens under fire
ePolitix.com reports on yesterdays debate at Westminster on the British Overseas Territories: During a debate on the foreign affairs committee’s report on overseas territories, Andrew
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Will income tax changes for the very rich raise any money?
That’s what the Institute for Fiscal Studies asked in a press release issued today. They said: The Government’s plans to raise income tax rates for
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What I want from the budget
Having derided what KPMG wants from the Budget I guess it’s only fair that I publish my own wish list: A Green New Deal; A
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