It is, of course, an act of vanity to suggest a budget you know you will never deliver, not least because you have no intention
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Osborne is a Chancellor who never did know what he was doing and is clueless now
The budget is usually the centrepiece of any government's policy making. It is also an opportunity milked for all its possible publicity worth. And a
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Oxfam’s new report on wealth inequality – with links to the full report
I thought it worth sharing Oxfam’s press release on its new report on wealth inequality in the UK in full. The report itself is available
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Automatic information exchange with the Crown Dependencies is all very good but what if HMRC is too short staffed to use the data?
The government has published new regulations this morning called The International Tax Compliance (Crown Dependencies and Gibraltar) Regulations 2014. These regulations bring into affect the FATCA style
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It is time to replace the IFRS Foundation
Just occasionally a public interest defence has to be used for quoting a significant part of an article in the newspaper. This article from The
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The test of a government that is committed to growth, stability and justice is whether or not it decreases inequality
There are two headlines that provide the background to budget week. The first is in the FT, and refers to the up-market auction house, Bonhams:
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Without a clean sweep and a return to core principles the Co-op can’t survive
If Lord Myners is to be believed then the Coop Group was and is in a profound mess due to serious faults in its corporate
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The campaign for tax haven free local government is EU wide
The following report came to me via Eurodad, the European network of aid and development agencies. I have not taken part in this initiative, and
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Country-by-country reporting is about more than tax
I suspect it was always going to be the case that when Economia gave me the chance to write for them once a month that
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