If proof were needed that the City usually turns a blind eye to money laundering
Monday, July 30th, 2012It’s almost impossible not to firstly be amused, and then alarmed by a report in the FT late last night, which said: UK brokers and
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Banking 2012: the crisis we have to address, and how
Monday, July 2nd, 2012We have another banking crisis. The banking crisis of 2008 was, by consensus, caused by incompetence, although some of us argued that a corrupt demand for lax regulation had exacerbated the
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On pasties, caravans and Osborne's sweating the small stuff whilst the economy sinks
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012Osborne’s abandoned the pasty tax. And the caravan tax. It’s a good question whether or not he should have done; the pasty tax was a
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Why the UK's biggest companies did not need a 2% tax rate cut
Sunday, April 15th, 2012Amongst the few items in last month’s budget not, so far, subject to retrospective Tory regret about the incompetence in the thinking behind it was the 2%
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Now the government's admitted 50p tax rate payers did £6 billion of tax avoidance will they up their estimate of tax gap?
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012The government admitted today that 50p tax rate payers alone did more than £6 billion of tax avoidance on one income tax ruse alone. But
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The Channel Islands' VAT abuse - the ongoing saga
Monday, March 12th, 2012So much is going on I am having problems covering it all. So let me just point at this important Guardian story on the ongoing saga of the Channel Islands, vat
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The tax gap - the Treasury Select Committee misses the point
Thursday, March 8th, 2012The Treasury Select Committee is issuing a report in the morning on the tax gap. I gave evidence at the hearings that resulted in this
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Even the Tories now say it's time to stop their NHS reforms
Friday, February 10th, 2012I don’t often quote Conservative Home here, but this morning they’ve put out the following blog and according to many sources have done so at the request of members
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Nigel Lawson - an exercise in wantonness
Monday, February 6th, 2012I often think Nigel Lawson lives on a different planet to the rest of us. He wrote this in the FT this morning: Capitalism works
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