There’s excellent news in the Observer today: Plans have been drawn up for an international taskforce to crack down on tax haven abuses orchestrated in
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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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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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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’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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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 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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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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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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