The World Bank has announced: 12 November 2008 – The World Bank has issued its first bond where the proceeds will be directly invested in
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These are my links for November 19th: Democrats Gain as Stevens Loses His Senate Race – NYTimes.com – Fantastic. I do like it when corrupt
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Fascinating how an idea can permeate fast. It is only this year that the Tax Justice Network began to seriously promote my definition of a
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The Chartered Institute of Taxation put out a press release this morning saying: In these turbulent economic times, the CIOT believes it is even more
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Sometimes small changes that are important pass almost unnoticed. Take Statutory Instrument 2008 No. 2871, appealingly entitled “RECOVERY OF TAXES” and subtitled “The Recovery of
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Is this really what BDO think tax fraudsters are like? Or HMRC officials, come to that? I admit I’d fire their ad agency for this
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These are my links for November 18th: Prem Sikka: Hold company directors to account | – Prem asks the vital question – how do we
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I have the following letter in the London Evening Standard today: George Osborne is wrong in his fears for sterling – national economies are not
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The Barclays Bank fiasco, of it accepting an offer of funding from Middle East investors at an interest rate of 14%, at a tax cost
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