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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I had a long conversation with Neal Lawson from Compass this morning following on from this blog yesterday. Neal assures me Compass remains committed to
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The Guardian reported this today: George Osborne will step up his campaign to toughen developed countries’ stance on tax havens and company tax transparency by urging
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The latest edition of Tax Justice Focus explores and explodes some of the most persistent and powerful myths in contemporary economics. Earlier this year we teamed up with the New
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I strongly recommend this for those fed up with where we are:   It doesn’t answer all questions: it does ask a lot of the
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