In 2006 I co-authored a report with two Dutch colleagues. The message of the report was pretty clear from the cover: The report was a big
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Why does the FT’s new interactive corporation tax map (of which this is a screen shot, not the real interactive thing): 1) Use some very
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There’s been another step forward in  progress towards revising the European Union Savings Tax Directive. As Business Week Reported at the weekend: Austria became the last
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As the FT notes this morning: The Netherlands and Luxembourg had booked foreign direct investment of $5.8tn by the end of 2012 — more than
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I am aware, as Bill Dodwell was keen to emphasise in this morning’s spat on Starbucks, that Vince Cable had BIS staff review Starbuck’s accounts
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Ivan Horrocks, for whose thinking I have much regard, wrote this as a comment on the blog this morning, responding to the story about the Public Accounts
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This is too good not to listen to (file can’t be embedded so opens in separate link). Bill Dodwell claimed Starbucks makes no profit in the
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In the CLASS think tank paper that Howard Reed and I have written that reconsideres Beveridge’s concept of idleness in a 21st century frameowrk we
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The Public Accounts Committee has spoken: the relationship between the Big 4 firms of accountants and HMRC is far too close and is a threat
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