Best quote of yesterday was Margaret Hodge: ‘I think that you do evil’ But run close by Anna Walker of UK Uncut: “The government talks
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Lloyds Bank was forced to make an interesting admission yesterday: The boss of Lloyds Banking Group pledged to pull out of tax havens where the bank is
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If there’s one thing I cannot fault the Tories for it’s their hatred of the state they are elected to serve. They loath its spending. It’s therefore
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Do you remember that Starbucks said they’d pay £20 million if tax voluntarily last year? Well according to Laura Kuennsberg at ITV they haven’t quite got round
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I have posted twice already on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing on Google today, once to anticipate it, and again to summarise some details
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I wrote this morning about the issues I expected to arise during this mornings Public Accounts Committee hearing on Google. The hearing has just finished as I
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As the Guardian note: The former head of Revenue and Customs (HMRC) took into account potential embarrassment to George Osborne when letting off Goldman Sachs from paying
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  More details here. And yes, I am in it.

I have been told the following this morning by a music distributor: I do £millions of sales to amazon, all buying & marketing negotiated and run through
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