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.

The New Economics Foundation / Tax Justice Network mythbusters series has continued with the next one being featured in an article on tax competition in The
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A commentator on this blog said this morning: I don’t know a lot about banking, but I do know that banks can’t simply magic money
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There was a lengthy debate on the General Anti-Abuse Rule in the House of Commons on Wednesday. I’m grateful to Michael Meacher MP, Kelvin Hopkins MP and Caroline Lucas MP
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It’s not so long ago that the Economist was a died in the wool believer in tax havens. As a bastion of free market thinking
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