The Fair Tax Mark is being re-launched in a new form next Thursday. The Guardian is already on the issue: As one commentator and former critic
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Wolf for the day
Martin Wolf remains on top form. This is from his FT comment piece this morning: [I]t is astonishing how little this crisis has shaken conventional
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The cappuccino economy is having a double espresso
This week has provided telling evidence that when all else fails people expect government to work. I’ve not noted the presence of the private sector
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Tax and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
I noted the enthusiasm of some for my suggestions on tax and human rights the other day, so I thought I would return to the
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Just saying
The FT notes this morning that: The Cayman Islands, Luxembourg and Jersey are among 42 countries that have agreed to pioneer a tax transparency regime in another milestone
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New OECD report on automatic information exchange: will developing countries be left out?
The Tax Justice Network posted this press release today and I share it as I endorse what it says: Feb 13, 2014 – Today the OECD presented a
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Linda Kaucher on TTIP – worth watching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etUJguPSKMw Linda Kaucher has been a long term opponent of so called free-trade agreements that legally enforce neo-liberalism. This extract from the Kesier Report is
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What we need is a flood of money
I have already written about funding the NHS this morning. So let me offer another idea on how to funf flood defences. As is now
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Saving for the NHS
On Monday night I watched Jeremy Paxman’s programme on the First World War. One of the social dimensions of the war that he discussed was
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