I can only express my amazement at the story uncovered by my Tax Justice Network colleague John Christensen last week and revealed in the Observer
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A C Grayling in the Guardian: Whatever new framework emerges from this mess, [short selling] and other potentially wrecking practices will have to come under
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I am amused by this. It comes from the Exposure draft of Chapter 1 of the new Conceptual Framework issued by both the International Accounting
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I was wrong about there being no possible objectors to the idea promoted by the TUC that those earning £200,000 a year should pay 40%
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The Times (amongst many other papers) has reported that: Trade unions will this week call for higher taxes on high earners and curbs on the
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The Times has reported that HM Revenue & Customs’ legal department is overwhelmed in cases right now, mainly due to the volume of offshore tax
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My column on TaxationWeb continues. Right now it’s intro reads: Richard Murphy considers some of the principal tenets of the UK taxation system and asks
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I’ve discussed the weakness of George Osborne’s logic on corporate inversions and have already suggested anti-inversion legislation as one possible mechanism for tackling this issue,
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I’ve already shown how disastrous George Osborne’s reaction to the latest round of corporate inversions in the UK would be, but let’s give him credit
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