If evidence is needed that we continue to be governed by cowardly politicians of the sort that I described in The Courageous State then George
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Jonathan Fisher QC has an article in The Times this morning that suggests that he would welcome HSBC prosecutions. The Times paywall is one most
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According to elite state agents Knight Frank the rich are getting richer, and are in London: London has been home to more of the ultra-rich
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Jolyn Maugham has provided an excellent analysis of the Court of Appeal decision in the Ingenious case. His analysis is more interesting though. As he says:
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Some good work by Transparency International in the UK is reported by the FT today. As the FT notes: The secrecy surrounding foreign owners of
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The FT has noted today that India is introducing tough new laws on tax haven abusers as a reaction to the HSBC scandal. In a
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This email arrived this afternoon: ———— Public Accounts Committee Informal note to the media Subject: Tax avoidance and evasion: HSBC The Committee has decided to
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As the FT reports this morning: Northern Ireland’s devolved government faces its biggest overhaul in 15 years as politicians and officials brace for the arrival
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Edmund Phelps was the 2006 Nobel laureate in Economics and is director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. He argues in the
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