As Economia magazine, and many others, have noted: The majority of the British public thinks it is unacceptable to avoid paying tax, according to a
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We will have nationalised railways
The East Coast main line was privatised, again, yesterday. After five years in public ownership, in which it was one of only two train franchises
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It isn’t the left’s job to enforce a creditor’s paradise in Europe
Mark Blyth is the Eastman professor of political economy at Brown University and the author of Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea. A recent
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What happens when there’s only finance left?
As the FT notes this morning: The coalition’s ambitions to promote the UK’s £60bn pharmaceutical sector as a high-growth industry have suffered a blow after
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Even the FT says it is time for the domicile rule to go
In an editorial this morning the FT says: More than two centuries after the introduction of income tax by Mr Pitt, his successors should end
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Holding pension funds to account
As the Guardian has noted this morning: The UK’s fund management industry is “ripe for investigation” because of “an alarming lack of transparency that surrounds
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Why the domicile rule survives
If you want to know why the domicile rule survives despite the very obvious abuses it permits note this in an email I have just received:
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It is civil society that is leading the way on tax thinking
I liked this comment in the Economist yesterday in an article discussing the problems with automatic information exchange from tax havens under the OECD’s proposed Common
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Cooperatives UK enter partnership with the Fair Tax Mark
Cooperatives UK have issued the following press release that I am pleased to share: The UK co-operative sector, worth £37 billion to the British economy,
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