I wrote yesterday of the end of my European dream, and that is a theme I will return to when the Joy of Tax is
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Jersey’s finances going down the pan
The Jersey Evening Post reported yesterday that: JERSEY’S fiscal ‘black hole’ has now mushroomed to £145m — around £1,438 for every local resident — according
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Europe needs a new dream if the crisis of 2016 is to be avoided
The EU is a shambles today. Across it people will be asking, as I have done, if the organisation of which they find themselves a
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The end of my European dream
The imposition of German demands on Greece, without consideration for its democracy, sovereignty or interests, is one of those moments that changes everything. I grew
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Those big tax justice numbers, again
I wrote yesterday on an new report from Maya Forstater for the Center for Global Development on whether or not the tax lost to developing
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The new debt trap
The Jubilee Debt Campaign has a long tradition in fighting on a single issue that has caused and reinforced a great deal of poverty, and
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UK Government blocking progress on new global tax body
ActionAid, Christian Aid, Oxfam and Save the Children made the following joint statement today: At the third UN Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) in
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The EU demands an end to Greek trade union rights
This is from the EU summary of the deal made with Greece: On labour markets [Greece must] undertake rigorous reviews and modernisation of collective bargaining,
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Peace in our time
Tsipras will return to Greece today holding a scrap of paper declaring that there will be peace in our time. Chamberlain did much the same
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