I have nothing to add to the detail I wrote on the Google deal after reflecting on it overnight. I do have some broader reflections
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Google’s tax deal is another HMRC big business disaster
In a slight twist to my planned Friday evening the BBC called me a little before eight tonight to ask if I minded being on
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EU challenges UK’s territorial taxation in new Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive
A draft of the proposed new EU anti-tax avoidance directive has been leaked on the FT website. There is much to commend in it inclduing
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Bank of England should use the £10 billion windfall to kick-start ‘jobs in every constituency’
The following press release has been issued by the Green New Deal group this morning: Bank of England should use the £10 billion windfall to
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Will Osborne’s tax changes burst the housing bubble?
One of Nigel Lawson’s great mistakes was the timing of the abolition of what was called Mortgage Interest Relief at Source for multiple owners of
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I would love to agree with Martin Wolf
Martin Wolf argues in the FT this morning that: Guarded optimism about the immediate future for the world economy is reasonable He extrapolates that the UK
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You can make a difference to tax in your town: sign the Fair Tax Pledge
There is a lot of comment on the television programme The Town That Took on the Taxman, and rightly so. Many will now be asking
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Fair Tax Towns: a review
I was out last night and so did not see the BBC programme The Town That Took on the Taxman when it was broadcast, but
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The stock market sell off is not the economic crisis: it is the symptom
The Guardian ran a feature yesterday on economic comment from Davos concerning world share market sell offs. One union leader apart the vast majority of
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