The Guardian has named Barclays the UK’s biggest tax avoider. And rightly so. They’ve featured here often. Roger Jenkins of Barclays is the person they
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I note that the UK’s Accounting Standards Board ‘Inside Track’ publication for January 2009 makes some very off suggestions. It says: Staff plans to submit
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EDM 665 GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER’S TAX GAP SERIES 03.02.2009 Taylor, David That this House applauds the Guardian’s serialised coverage of the tax avoidance industry and its
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EDM 674 BANKS AND TAX AVOIDANCE 03.02.2009 Mitchell, Austin That this House is concerned that banks financed by the UK taxpayer through credit, loans, guarantees,
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EDM 673 ACCOUNTANCY HOUSES AND TAX AVOIDANCE 03.02.2009 Mitchell, Austin That this House urges the Government to investigate and regulate the activities of banks, law
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I note the National Institute of Economic and Social Research says the banking collapse will cost the Exchequer £14 billion a year. And I reckon
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In a reply to a comment on this blog I got a most insightful reply from a member of the Channel Islands’ finance industry. I
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I refer you to the Guardian. You decide. But the only possible answers are one or the other or both.

One sunny day in February, 2009 an old man approached the White House from Across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he’d been sitting on a park bench
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