This video is on the web site of Church Action on Poverty right now, whose campaign for Fair Taxes I am pleased to support: When
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Network banking: the radical reform the UK’s banking system needs
I wrote the following on 20 October 2008. Not much has changed since then (regrettably) and we’re now heading for another banking crisis, so I offer it
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This time we nationalise the banks – and I mean all of them
George Osborne agrees the Euro is in a crisis and urgent action is needed The IMF say a vicious circle of weak growth and weak balance sheets
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VAT consignment relief and the Channel Islands – it’s time for the final whistle
It seems worth reproducing the following exchange from Hansard this week in full: Jonathan Edwards: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he
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Yes, I make mistakes
It seems a matter of great delight to some in the Crown Dependencies that the EU has finally aproved their much altered tax systems. As has
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Comments: yet again
It looks like the trolls are out again. Saying ‘you’re wrong’ is not debate. And it’s deleted as a result – as I say I
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The Isle of Man is already denying what it said to the EU on zero / ten
The Isle of Man Today web site is noting, as I have this morning, that the EU has given tentative approval to the revised tax system in
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Jersey, The Isle of Man and Guernsey
The EU Code of Conduct on Business Taxation group met in Brussels this week to consider the measures Jersey and the Isle of Man are proposing to take to make their tax systems compliant with EU
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For someone of supposedly sound judgment this analysis by Gillian Tett is remarkably poor
Gillian Tett has written the following in the FT this morning: The past three decades of financial history are sometimes described as a period when free market
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