The whole model of tax competition is based on the idea that in the modern world all countries – at least, countries up to the size of the UK
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These are two opening paragraphs in FT stories today: It is hard to believe the European Central Bank will not cut interest rates on Thursday.
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The FT’s reported this morning that: Apple sold bonds worth $17bn on Tuesday, the world’s largest corporate debt sale, as the iPhone maker raised capital to
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The Guardian notes this morning that: George Osborne has warned the Bank of England that it risks derailing Britain’s fragile economy if it uses tough new financial watchdog powers to clamp
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Fifty two years ago the retiring President Eisenhower made this broadcast: His warning about the dangers of the military industrial complex were profound, sincere and genuine. This
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This article of mine has been published on the Guardian’s Comment is Free site this afternoon: The news that HM Revenue & Customs used privileges granted to it under
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Npower has said today, in response to the allegation that it has avoided tax that: it worked with the Malta company “for a couple of
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Npower has come up with some responses to this morning’s news that it’s avoiding tax using a Maltese shell company. On its web site it
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I am not amused by Npower’s defence for tax avoiding, which I have accused them of this morning. They say in The Sun: Despite the
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