It’s Autumn Statement day today (just in case you had not noticed). As a result I’ll be in the Radio 2 studio with Jeremy Vice
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If only Starbucks did country-by-country reporting
I have a letter in the London Evening Standard this evening which is a slightly shorter version of this, which is what I submitted: Mark
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What’s left to say in the Autumn Statement?
Once upon a time leaking a budget statement (and the Autumn Statement meets that definition) was considered a serious issue and a politician guilty of
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Devolving corporation tax will be a disaster for Northern Ireland
It’s reported that George Osborne is planning a shoddy deal with the DUP in Northern Ireland to devolve corporation tax powers to Stormont in exchange
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Osborne’s tales of failure
The Autumn Statement is this week – on Wednesday, at about 12.30. I will, as usual, be discussing it on Radio 2 very soon after
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If London’s in charge of its court will it have become a City state?
The Guardian has reported that Boris Johnson wants to secure control of the courts and the prosecution service, a move which would put London’s mayor in
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So much for Osborne’s Google tax
In September George Osborne said he was going to use the Autumn Statement to put a new tax on the likes of Google. I had
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85% of British adults say tax avoidance by large companies is morally wrong
The following press release comes from Christian Aid but is worth sharing in full: —— More than four in five (85 per cent) British adults
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The futility of tax competition
The FT reports this morning that: The UK has lost its top slot in a league table of multinational companies’ favourite tax regimes, in spite
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