According to my dictionary rentiers are defined as: What’s the relevance? It’s this: That came from the Guardian website a few minutes ago. It reminded
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I was asked to do on interview on various aspects of the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profits Shifting (BEPS) process on Good Friday and actually
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There’s  a perverse consequence of the new rules on beneficial ownership of companies announced today.  Because the government has not adopted my recommendation that all
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I have already written today on the subject of the government’s proposals to create a register of the beneficial ownership of companies, something I have
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The government has announced today that: Measures to improve the transparency of who really owns and controls UK companies have been announced by Business Secretary
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As many will know I have been campaigning for country-by-country reporting of accounting and tax data by multinational companies for overcast decade. As a result
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I have been asked to comment on James Galbraith’s review of Thomas Piketty’s book, Capital in the twenty first century, because Galbraith is critical of
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I am intrigued by reaction amongst the tax profession to what I wrote about Starbucks yesterday. You won’t be surprised to know that those who
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The headline employment data today looks good. 239,000 new jobs. However, self-employment accounted for 146,000 of the increase. But as I have shown, firstly no
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