In the Tax Justice Network’s May 2014 Taxcast: the Taxcast looks at privatisation and tax: what happens when public assets or services get into private
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The Guardian has reported that: UK interest rates could start rising sooner than next spring, but “in baby steps”, and are likely to settle at about 3%
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According to the FT Thomas Piketty’s book ‘Capital’ has been ‘undermined by errors’. Chris Giles, who works for the paper, says he has found spreadsheeting
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I have mentioned this week that corporation tax is being turned into an honesty box tax. This is an obvious conclusion from the work in
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Three years ago I wrote a book called the Courageous State. There were those, of course, who predictably thought that a book that suggested the
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As the FT notes this morning: The Bank of England is moving closer to a rate rise after some members of the interest-rate setting Monetary Policy Committee
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Suppose prospective MPs were asked to sign a tax pledge before next year’s general election? What might it say? This was an idea discussed at
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If there was ever a day for a New Day’s Resolution this is it. Please decide to vote. And then go and do it. There’s
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In my new report ‘In the Shade: the UK’s missing economy’ I suggest that HM Revenue & Customs are lax, in the extreme, in their efforts
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