The CBI issued a statement on its seven new tax principles last week. As with most things said by big business on tax these need unpacking to
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From the FT: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) stepped up its crackdown on tax evasion on Tuesday, publishing its second list of “deliberate tax defaulters”
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This is from the FT this morning, by Steingrímur Sigfússon: Iceland’s response to the financial crisis has been taken as a model for how a country should
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This table has just been published by the OECD and shows the “tax wedge” taken from employment earnings for all 34 OECD countries: The OECD say of
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As the European Voice has noted: EU Finance ministers fail to reach deal on tax avoidance That’s the depressing out come of yesterday’s ECOFIN meeting. As was also noted:
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I wrote this only a week or so ago, but it seems worth reiterating already: I have suggested on many occasions that what Labour needs
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I believe Labour is moving sharply to the right, and very quickly. There’s talk of sticking to Tory spending limits despite the disaster that delivered in 1997.
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This is from the Guardian today: GP surgeries should be set up at hospitals to ease the growing pressure on accident and emergency units, which are struggling
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This is by Martin Wolf in the FT this morning: Last week the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was reported to have passed 400
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