I note the FT says this morning that: One of Paul Wolfowitz’s two deputies on Wednesday urged the World Bank president to resign as the
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The World Bank has launched its Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative. Basically that’s a service to help countries that have been plundered by corrupt rulers
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Accountancy Age has discussed the problems that have given rise to the need for a tax amnesty. As it says: What the taxman needs to
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HMRC have made clear that the ‘tax amnesty’ is an opportunity. As Accountancy Age reports: Offshore tax evaders are set to feel the full force
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I believe in progressive taxation. It’s good to see others do to: The wealthy have made greater use of the common good–they have been empowered
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When it comes to tax Tories are predictable. They don’t like them. That’s why they appoint Lords who don’t pay them. Yet paying tax is
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I said recently I didn’t often quite the Telegraph, but I’m going to again. It has a neat little table on the consequences of the
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What is to be made of the UK Revenue’s announcement that a tax amnesty is to be offered? I blogged this issue yesterday, not knowing
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Alex Cobham has an excellent blog on the Guardian site concerning Paul Wolfowitz’s problems at the World Bank. I recommend it. George Monbiot covers some
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