I appreciated John Kay’s article in the FT this morning, of only because I agree with much of it. He says: Nationalised financial institutions have
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I promoted a talk I did in the City last night here, a while ago. My slides are here. It was an interesting debate, promoted
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These are my links for November 25th: FT.com / Companies / Retail – Competing proposals to save Woolworths – It doesn't look like VAT will
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I was on BBC Radio Jersey this morning (no link yet) – replying to deputy Chief Minister Terry le Sueur, who was welcoming the government’s
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These are my links for November 24th: FT.com / UK / Business – Tesco calls for £300m tax break – If there is one company
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As someone who has spent most of his career in technical tax my inevitable reaction to any Pre-Budget report is to dive into that press
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Barclays is being flogged off for the sake of its internal tax abusers – Roger Jenkins and Bob Diamond – but only just. As The
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Search hard in the PBR and there is stuff worth reading. Take this: The Government is also planning to reform the legislation governing cooperatives and
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According to the Chartered Institute of Tax the impact of the VAT change on a household with earnings of £20,000 a year is £2.50 a
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