The opinion that taxation is theft is now officially and even legally considered to be an extreme view. I can say this based on the
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The new Guidance on the new General Anti-Abuse Rule (GAAR) in UK taxation has been published today. I sat on the committee drafting this guidance,
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As the FT notes this morning: UK companies reporting annual results for the year to March are expected to report an increase of more than
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The evidence that there are at least two nations, and not one, in the UK is very clear. As Larry Elliott put it this morning: [A] CRESC study
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Europolitics published an article with (near enough) the above title yesterday, saying: Momentum was created during the informal EU Ecofin Council on 12-13 April to aim for an agreement
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According to Reuters: Tax dodging causes the European Union to lose around 1 trillion euros of income each year, the president of the European Council said
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There’s more from Austria’s finance minister, Maria Fekter, on what she wants from the EU in exchange for Austria agreeing to tax information exchange in the Guardian. Now,
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Richard Exell at the TUC has written an excellent blog entitled Eight Prime Ministers and the Economy. One thing jumped out for me: the data on unemployment. GDP
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The Economic Times of India has reported this morning tat: Under fire for its banking secrecy, Austria hit back at Britain and the United States on Thursday, urging them
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