Treasury revises revenue from 50% rate – Accountancy Age. The Age says: The Treasury is expecting to take much less from the new 50% rate
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The OECD is to set up a ‘task force’ to implement a coherent approach to tax and development issues, engaging developing countries and other key
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After more than 30 years the OECD held its first joint meeting of its development and tax committees yesterday. And as Jeffrey Owens, head of
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A tax regime that works | Nizar Manek | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk . Nizar Manek notes: Just after the 1987 Wall St crash,
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Labour opens new front in battle with the City | Politics | The Guardian . Two policies I’ve helped promote look like getting prominence in
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The Observer asked five left of centre thinkers about what they wanted from the PBR. My contribution was: RICHARD MURPHY Founder, Tax Justice Network There
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For those interested, I am discussing the new Compass tax report on the Today programme, BC Radio 4 at 8.40 this morning.

Compass have published a new report this morning. Entitled ‘In Place of Cuts:Tax reform to build a fairer society ’, it puts forward a comprehensive
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The Observer has reported: Alistair Darling should levy a £5bn "empty property tax" on up to a million homes left vacant by absentee landlords, to
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