David Gauke, the Exchequer Secretary, and I have not always had a harmonious relationship. In fact, on occasion he’s been pretty robust when making comment about my
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From the FT this morning: The head of the US audit regulator has made a fresh call for senior auditors to be stripped of their
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Discussion of the appointment of nPower’s Volker Beckers as a non-executive director brings back into sharp focus the very odd pattern of appointments to the HMRC board of directors.
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Geoff Cook at Jersey Finance is stomping his foot and hoping the world will notice. As he says in a recent comment on their web site: EU’s Tax Evasion Drive
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Last week I discussed nPower’s tax. Of course its affairs are all legal, but I made the suggestion that it seems its UK operations are structured to
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As the Guardian notes this morning: George Osborne will announce an expansion of the Bank of England’s £80bn funding for lending scheme (FLS) ahead of a visit
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The G20 Finance Ministers’ Communique issued yesterday says (and I have edited it into paragraphs): More needs to be done to address the issues of
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There’s an interesting new paper from the Bank for International Settlements out this month, authored by Claudio Borio. Entitled ‘The Great Financial Crisis: setting priorities for new statistics’ the abstract
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I have just noted this:   As I say, I’ve just noted it.