As the BBC have reported: Apple’s Italian subsidiary has agreed to pay €318m (£235m; $348m) following an investigation into tax fraud allegations, Italy’s tax office
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The Guardian has just published this: I think they were trying to establish a mad professor theme with that choice of photo. As for the
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I have already mentioned the EREP publication ‘The Cracks Begin to Show: A Review of the UK Economy in 2015’ this morning. This is my
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The EREP network — Economists for Rational Economic Policies (of which I am a member) — has published its Review of the UK Economy in
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In 2008 the banking sector collapsed. Gordon Brown blamed tax havens. Only later was it quietly admitted that the crisis began in US and UK
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Janan Ganesh has an article in the FT this morning in which he argues: The politics of hope has a spurious respectability but reeks of
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David Cameron has said he will spend whatever it takes to provide flood defences. Respectfully, everyone knows that if he does that benefits will be
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I am, if I can be quite candid, quite angry to read this in the Guardian: Labour MP Simon Danczuk has become the latest person
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The Guardian reported yesterday that: Abolition of corporation tax is to be considered by a new cross-party group of MPs and peers who will subject
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