Average food bill to rise by £13.46 a week if IFS have their way
Monday, August 4th, 2008The average household shopping bill is about £5,200 a year based on British Retail Consortium data, extrapolated from here. Most, but not all food is
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UBS knew it was acting illegally
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008I have been reading the US Senate report on tax havens that focuses on LGT and UBS. I have already reported my doubts about the
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Father Ted's tax haven
Sunday, July 6th, 2008The Irish have a Tax Commission in progress at present. It’s latest mad idea in a country that already seems to believe that tax abuse
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Capital flight fact sheet
Monday, June 2nd, 2008Capital flight is now known to extract substantially more cash from the developing world than is sent there in development assistance. A new fact sheet
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PWC's statistics
Monday, March 31st, 2008All blog owners like to look at their visitor statistics every now and again. the one who denies this is a liar. I noticed something
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Micheal Meacher speaking on Tax Justice in the Budget debate
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008Michael Meacher MP spoke on tax justice in the budget debate. It’s one of the fullest speeches on the subject in the House of Commons,
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Accountancy Age and Taxation agree: the non-doms won't walk away
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008It’s rare you read a blog that is as good as Alex Hawkes’ on the non-doms from which I was distracted by Liechtenstein: It’s getting
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£25 billion: the cost of tax avoidance
Friday, February 1st, 2008The TUC published a report called ‘The Missing Billions: The UK Tax Gap’ this morning. I’ll declare an interest now: I wrote this report. It’s
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Hedge funds: just what you need for tax abuse
Thursday, January 17th, 2008Marty Sullivan at Tax Analysts has been continuing his work on tax haven abuse, this time turning his attention to the use of hedge funds
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