The Big 4 firms of accountants advertised in Hong Kong last week, saying that pro-democracy demonstrations should not rake place. Their staff place can advert
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NGOs protest at PWC being hired by EU to assess country-by-country reporting
The following press release was issued by Eurodad – an NGO coordinating action by other development NGOs – this morning: After strongly opposing any publication
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The class divide in a couple of diagrams
The government says it is concerned about sugar reduction. These charts comes from page 10 of their report on the issue: There is the class
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The importance of the labour movement in tackling inequality
The following comes from the web site of the Class Think Tank, of whose advisory board I am a member: The importance of the labour
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Barclays and country-by-country reporting: what we learned
I wrote yesterday about Barclays’ country-by-country report and what could be gleaned from it. The Guardian referred to that work in this morning’s paper. Barclays did
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The danger of devolving economic power and tax to English regions
I have not read the Adonis Review on devolving power to English regions that is being published by the Labour Party this morning but I
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Barclays: the bank that just loves Luxembourg and Jersey, but not the UK
Barclays has put out its first country-by-country reporting. This is not a statutory report: it has been published in anticipation of the requirement that banks produce
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The economics of deeply divided Britain
The FT reports this morning that: Business confidence has climbed to its highest level for at least 22 years, with optimism growing in all UK
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Has Ed Balls got a cunning plan on tax?
I was willing and able to welcome the the announcements that Labour made on tax on Saturday. They made sense, took it in the right
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