Tax avoidance is not as prevalent in the UK as most like to think. When I last estimated it I put it at £19 billion
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Apparently George Osborne is planning a budget ‘soon’. What for? To deal with the massive debt, poor growth, out of control deflation and massive trade
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With the election out of the way it’s time to look at research again. This was a highlight of recent publications, coming from Alex Cobham
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Alan Johnson said today that Labour must be more appealing to the aspirational. I leave Labour’s debates to it to pursue, but there is a
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I saw some friends last night. The situation in which it arose is far from political: I do not spend my whole life isolated from
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This comes from an FT report this morning on a survey of tax opinion held by 75 large companies: More than six of 10 of the
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There are a number of very clear lessons to be learned from the general election result. The first is that the austerity narrative works in
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I made clear yesterday that I was not endorsing any party in the general election. I stand by that. But I admit, that like almost
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