From the Economic Times of India: India will pitch for deeper tax information exchange agreements at the G-20 to make such pacts more effective in
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Kay and Wolf – voices of reason at the FT
Being grey haired is meant to make you old, grumpy, withdrawn and resentful of all around you if you believed the popular press — or
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Alan Budd on Tory class politics
And then he let himself be used again in the same way. But this time he saw the light. Or did he always do it
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Why did Alan Budd go?
Sir Alan Budd has quit the Office for Budget Responsibility and left George Osborne’s Treasury in a shambles. First David Laws. Now Sir Alan. Watch
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The IMF is still prescribing pro-cyclical policies that constrain public spending at cost to all bar the 1%
The Third World Network has reported that despite pledges to address the crisis in flexible and innovative ways, the IMF’s key objective in crisis loans
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Why ConDem economics is wrong – in about a side of A4
I am bored, mightily bored, with the argument that goes along the lines of a commentator here this morning who said: Every penny spent on
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The legitimacy of tax
A briefing sheet on the legitimacy of taxation charges, which coincidentally offers a definition of tax evasion as an abuse of property rights, has been
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Markets are not calling for Deficit Reduction; now or later
The following comes from the testimony of James Galbraith on June 30 appeared before the US Commission on Deficit Reduction and is the section of
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Tax can never be theft
The libertarians are back on the blog — but at least the current wave are trying to be polite. With them, however, has returned the
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