This is from the FT this morning: For every dollar the top US public companies spend on investment, they are returning eight or nine dollars to
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All things being equal Jeremy Corbyn is a bad idea for Labour. But they’re not equal
Andrew Rawnsley has had another rant about Jeremy Corbyn in the Observer this morning. He’s said: The idea that Labour should be in the business
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Why can’t all the Labour candidates say something as clear as this?
I have been asked if I am endorsing Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaign by making comment on this site and in public on his tax policies.
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A holiday for the trolls
The volume of deliberate trolling on this site has considerably increased of late. I am amazed that so many have so much time to waste,
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New sources of funding for Tax Research UK
I have for the past five years been funded in three fundamental ways. The first has been by a core grant from the Joseph Rowntree
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Why, oh why, aren’t HMRC doing what is really needed when it comes to data collection?
The government has issued a flood of new tax consultations, almost as if they wish to overwhelm the market and make sure only very limited
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The government may be walking away from its Green Deal. The Green New Deal marches on
The Green New Deal Group, of which I am a member, was formed in 2007 and began publishing its solutions to the world’s economic crisis
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HMRC and I are singing from a hymn sheet, if only for the first verse
HMRC published a new consultation document on increasing large business tax compliance yesterday. I welcome it. Tax avoidance or ‘aggressive tax planning’ Tax avoidance or
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Will it be ‘reds under beds’ soon at the Guardian?
The Guardian’s lack of objectivity on the fact that a left of centre candidate has stood for leadership of the Labour party (I use the
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