As has been widely reported the European Court of Justice ruled against Google yesterday, saying a Spanish man had the right to have links to
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The UK does not need our level of inequality
This is a country of the dispossessed. Who will represent them?
Much of the press is rather excitedly reporting that the Conservative Party has a lead over Labour in some opinion polls today, even though the
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How much can the CBI’s John Cridland get wrong in one interview?
This morning’s Today programme included an interview with John Cridland from the CBI discussing the state of the economy, the Pfizer bid, and more. The
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Tax and all that
It was a Friday and Saturday of tax stories last week. On Friday we were all supposedly going to have our bank accounts raided by
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A message of hope to Africa on tax
I have published a report this morning that was written as a briefing for the Africa Progress Panel in January 2014. They asked me to
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Caffe Nero’s tax: how it pays nothing on the millions it makes selling coffee
As many will know poet Steve Pottinger has a history of taking on coffee shops who don’t pay their tax. He began with Starbucks and
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Tax driven deals are made in hell, as Publicis-Omnicom proves
As the FT notes this morning the Publicis-Omnicom merger has failed. The French-US deal always looked to be tax driven. As the CEO of US
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Oxfam know their tax facts: it’s Tim Worstall who is peddling a harmful fantasy
One of my regular opponents, the thoroughly distasteful Tim Worstall, decided to lay into Oxfam’s new report on corporate tax in developing countries on Forbes.
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