I mentioned a study that Jersey were promoting on this blog more than a week ago. It is being discussed in the City of London
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How far can a party go?
I am not a member of a political party. I do comment on what they do, because that has impact on the lives of those
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For all Cameron’s fine words the UK remains a major obstacle to tax transparency
There is a G7 heads of state meeting in Brussels this week: since last year the organisation has laid Russia aside an reverted to its
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Tax avoidance is welcome with UKIP
The Guardian reports this morning that: Most forms of legal tax avoidance are ok, says Nigel Farage Now, I’ll admit that working out quite what
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In the Belfast Telegraph this morning
My commentary on corporation tax in Northern Ireland reached the Belfast Telegraph this morning, where my piece starts: I am worried that Northern Ireland could be sleep
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My Queen’s speech
It’s Queen’s speech day, for the last time in tis Parliament. What will be offered looks like an agenda of desperation focussed mainly on bribing
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Information needed: just what was in the £23.9bn that HMRC claimed it had collected?
I wrote last week about how inappropriate I thought HMRC’s claims with regard to £23.9bn of extra tax collected by it as a result of
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How many spare bedrooms does a person need before they impose a cost on society?
My first, instinctive, reaction, to George Monbiot’s suggestion that there should be a bedroom tax on private property was to say ‘no way’. Long experience
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Jersey issues bonds to pay for social housing a decade after I suggested the idea
It must be a least a decade ago that Deputy Geoff Southern of Jersey and I both recommended that Jersey raise money to invest in
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