Debate on whether or not Northern Ireland (and Scotland) should have control of their corporation tax rates is back on the agenda. I will be
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Labour’s Call to all Progressives
This could be the conclusion to the Labour Party’s 2015 manifesto: Labour’s Call to all Progressives Quite a number of political parties will be taking
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Why are UK universities ignoring tax?
Benjamin Franklin once said that only two things in life are certain. One is death, and the other taxation. You would not, however, know this
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I’ve seen the future of a privatised NHS, and its fraudulent
The Economist published a story on Saturday on the cost of fraud in the US healthcare system. As they noted: In America the scale of
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The FT gets it wrong ago: accounting for the NHS is not as simple as they think
The FT is shocked today. It is reporting that: Taxpayers pay up to five times more for National Health Service operations in some hospitals than others, according
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Alliance Boots and the use and abuses of Limited Liability Partnerships
Last year War on Want published a report revealing that Boots the Chemists — a fixture of most U.K. high streets — had dodged over £1 billion
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The Finance Innovation Lab first Tax Assembly needs your presence
It would be good to have strong civil society participation at this event. I will be there: The Finance Innovation Lab in conjunction with the
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Why support Labour when their economic policy is based on cuts and appeasing bankers?
There is a hugely depressing article in the Guardian this morning on a speech that Chris Leslie MP, Labour’s shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury,
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Thinking about May 2015
I am a member of an email based discussion group that considers a wide range of new economic issues. Post the Euro elections there has
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