This comes from one of this morning’s FT emails: Isn’t it just time we recognised that the world’s major banks were systemically corrupt? Why not
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The extent to which the UK has become a tax haven became apparent yesterday at the Public Accounts Committee Hearing when Margaret Hodge asked why
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Aditya Chakrabortty has written a powerful article for the Guardian this morning under the title ‘Mainstream economics is in denial: the world has changed’. He
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The tax gap debate in the UK was pretty much first sparked by my February 2008 paper for the TUC entitled The Missing Billions. Old
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I wrote yesterday referring to a 1999 Financial Times article by Ed Troup who is now the permanent secretary for HM Revenue & Customs in which
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Amongst the outcomes of yesterday’s Public Accounts Committee hearing in which HMRC were interviewed about their performance was the revalation that the UK – Swiss
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I blogged twice this morning in anticipation of today’s Public Accounts Committee investigation of HMRC relating to its 2012/13 accounts. I suggested questions needing answers
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Stephen Moss has a touching and respectful interview with Tony Benn in the Guardian today, which is well worth reading. The idea in the following
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The Public Accounts Committee is interrogating HMRC this afternoon, as I’ve already noted. Principle witness for HMRC is Edward Troup, Tax Assurance Commissioner and second Permanent
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