The Greens, UKIP and SNP all presented tax proposals yesterday in the run up to the election. The Greens suggested a wealth tax on those
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Apple, Google, Microsoft and Cisco: massive funders of the USA, at a price
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported this in March last year: The US government makes vast interest payments to technology giants including Apple and Microsoft
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The UK’s never been able to borrow more cheaply – so that’s what it should do
The UK government’s long term borrowing rates fell to an all time record low yesterday. The price of ten year bonds fell to 1.396% whilst
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The Fair Tax Mark in The Times
The Fair Tax Mark is featured in The Times this morning but I don’t pay to read it so I can only feature the headline: The
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Companies have forgotten how to make money
The last of the ‘pullover’ videos deals mainly with issues relating to tax competition: If you want me to suggest a company that has no
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The moral economy of the tax avoidance industry
I was asked to write some observations on the subject of accountants and morality yesterday as part of research being undertaken for a forthcoming bool.
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So much for the “plan” – it’s delivered the slowest recovery in economic history
To those who do not read the Touchstone blog from the TUC I warmly recommend it. This fascinating insight was on there yesterday, written by
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Tax, Apple, Gillian Tett and me on Channel 4 News
Apple, profits, tax and power
Apple has proved its brilliance and it has been rewarded with enormous financial power. The trouble is that Apple does not appear to have realised
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