I was amused by this comment in the newsletter of the International Financial Centres Forum yesterday (I do read the strangest things): Country-by-Country reporting is
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I admit that I am no great fan of Chris Giles at the FT, but I had no idea that he was quite as unpleasant
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The Guardian and other media carry reports that Camila Batmanghelidjh is being, in her opinion, forced to resign from the charity Kids Company. The government claims
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This is the video of the presentation I made to the TAXE committee of the EU yesterday. Begin at about 1 hour ten minutes. The
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I noted this in the FT this morning: Fortunately for the UK, the previous coalition government at least pushed infrastructure higher up the political agenda
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Every time I am in Brussels I suffer from the same torn emotion based on the idea of ‘if only’: if only the aim had
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I’m writing rather early in the morning in Brussels. Jean Claude Juncker pulled out of this morning’s TAXE committee hearing in the EU Parliament, suggesting
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Yesterday the Centre for Policy Studies claimed that pensioner households that received more in income from the state than they p[aid in tax were a
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I am a fan of Fintan O’Toole. His book The Ship of Fools was a classic. His writing for the Irish Times is exceptional. He
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