The FT ran a report on Monday that said: Non-bank lenders have overtaken US banks to grab a record slice of government-backed mortgages, after regulatory
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The time for international tax reform is now, Commission says
The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) was initiated by a coalition of civil society and labour organisations including Action Aid, Alliance-Sud,
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How would you prefer to vote?
The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) has just published its report on what it calls the most unfair election in the UK, ever. It has suggested
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Europe: the final countdown….
As the Tax Justice Network notes today: A series of news stories came out this week about European Union proposals to tackle tax avoidance by
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Who has benefited most from the government bail outs of the economy since 2008?
Who has benefited most from the government bail outs of the economy since 2008? I think that question is easily answered by the FT this
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There is no case for tax: only a case for what tax can do for us
Janan Ganesh is in typically trenchant form in the FT this morning arguing that, in the context of the Labour Party’s policies: By international standards,
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The OECD can’t just talk about climate change: its governments have to invest in tackling it
I noted that the OECD published a comment from the Dutch Prime Minster on its web site yesterday. He was writing in his capacity as
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Talk to the EU Parliament today: a little tax haven theory
I was meant to be making a presentation in the EU Parliament this afternoon. Unfortunately due to an accident involving the train in which I
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Can anyone in Labour seriously be proposing the City State of London?
I read this with quiet horror in the Guardian: London should be treated as a city state and given tax-raising powers to match its equal
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