Alex Cobham is now a regular commentator for the Guardian newspaper in the UK. He has an article out today on private equity. He argues
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Wolfowitz joins the American Enterprise Institute
Paul Wolfowitz is to join the American Enterprise Institute, according to the FT. Having been drummed out of the World Bank for his unethical practices
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Does the UK want 8% more corporation tax?
We’ve just had a paper on the possible impact unitary tax would have on EU member states. It suggested that this might give an 8%
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I agree with Mike Devereux
I’m always willing to give credit where it is due. The Oxford tax conference has moved to international tax issues today, and the first session
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Anti-avoidance at Oxford
The theme of the first day here at Oxford was tax avoidance. Although an international conference the focus was on the UK. The new relationship
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Andrew Dilnot thinks small businesses are bad businesses
Andrew Dilnot was director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies for many years. Now he’s Principal of St Hugh’s College Oxford and the university’s pro-Vice
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Oxford Centre for Business Taxation – a clarification
I have been asked by senior academics at the above Centre to clarify my blog, posted on Monday. They have made clear to me none
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Grant Thornton – tax is just cash
Heather Self, a partner in Grant Thornton in the UK has probably come out with the quote of the day at Oxford (so far). She
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Corporate taxes are a political issue – not an economic one
Down here in Oxford an academic took me aside to discuss my comments on Mike Devereux’s work, published hereon Monday. His argument was that a
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