I wrote a blog in Saturday which read as follows (to save you he time of going to read it): I was asked yesterday by
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The crisis of child poverty in this country did not happen by accident: it happened by design
The latest report of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission is implicitly damning of the government’s economic policy. It says: With the latest statistics
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HMRC and the minimum wage: more questions than answers on why some abusers aren’t named and shamed
HMRC has published a list of minimum wage offenders this morning. It has responsibility for policing enforcement of the minimum wage on behalf of the
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HMRC are losing their dawn raid touch
Accountancy Age had an interesting article yesterday (and it’s not often I say that these days). As they reported: The number of dawn raids carried out
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I’m honoured to be followed by Harry Leslie Smith
I got a real buzz out of discovering I had a new Twitter followers last night. I admit I get new Twitter followers, it seems,
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The difference between tax planning and tax avoidance? That’s easy
I was asked yesterday by a pretty experienced tax journalist how I defined the difference between tax planning and tax avoidance. “That”, I said “is
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Tax Justice and Human Rights: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship?
The following comes from the Tax Justice Network, with permission: The attached edition of Tax Justice Focus is devoted to tax justice and human rights. Many anti
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Markets are disconnected from the economy, but there are alternatives if only politicians wanted them
This, from an FT email just arrived in my inbox, is interesting: Isn’t the message clear: the recovery is being run for Wall Street and
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The return of two party politics?
The Conservatives won Newark. That should be no surprise: this was its 44th safest seat and the fact that Labour has won it in living
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