The OECD has published a new report that says it is now quite sure that inequality matters and has a significant impact on the economic
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Country-by-country reporting ‘inevitable’
My interest in country-by-country reporting is, I admit, personal, since first advocating it in 2003, so it was good to read this in Tax Notes International
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Christmas has come early for dodgy lawyers
Christmas has come early for tax dodging lawyers as HMRC has announced a new tax amnesty for solicitors this morning, saying: The Solicitors’ Tax Campaign
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The Bank of England is preparing the next crash
The FT worries me this morning. First it said this: The UK can have a growing banking sector without condemning itself to more frequent and
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Tax debate is all about politics and principles: the Google tax is likely to fail on both counts
Jolyon Maugham wrote of one if his own blogs a couple of days ago: Like many others (I presume) I decided to ignore that blog
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Printing houses
This letter was in the Guardian today: Instead of the eye-wateringly cruel cuts in public services inherent in the chancellor’s obsession with rapid deficit reduction,
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Here be thieves and fraudsters
What Osborne forgot to say: austerity does not guarantee the government balances its books
The way George Osborne tells the austerity story you’d think that it followed automatically that if he imposes austerity by cutting government spending it will
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Osborne’s class warfare drives his fixation with austerity
The whole of George Osborne’s economic policy is based upon his determination to remove the government deficit. Because he also hates all forms of taxation
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