George Osborne wrote a letter to Alistair Darling on Friday as a consequence of the reported news that Regus, Charter and Henderson are all leaving
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The arguments for a windfall tax on energy companies are complex. I am in favour of such a tax at this time. In forming that
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We heard extraordinary clamour about the inefficiency of HM Revenue & Customs when it lost data about child benefit claimants last year. The data in
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The TUC has published a briefing revealing that inequality is just as damaging to children as poverty, and harms their health, education and well-being. As
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There’s an article with the above title on the Guardian’s Comment is Free site today, with the subheading: A thinktank that claims to be unbiased
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There’s been a lot written about Merrill Lynch International (MLI), but it seems no one has bothered to actually analyse the accounts that include the
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Tax compliance is paying the right amount of tax (but no more) in the right place at the right time where right means that the
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It’s odd how ordinary house buyers can’t get tax relief for mortgages (and nor should they) but banks can: Merrill Lynch is unlikely to pay
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The review entitled The Political Economy of Tax Policy that the Institute for Fiscal Studies commissioned as part of its Mirrlees review of the future
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