Today is, of course, budget day. Rumour has it that it was moved from Wednesday to stop ghoulish jokes about Philip Hammond. And of course, if he
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If only I was reasonable
I have lost count of the number of times over the last twelve years that I have been told that if only I was more
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HMRC’s office closure programme is about to be revealed as the disaster it’s always been
The Harwich and Manningtree Standard is not a usual source here, but a news report it covered seems highly pertinent in the light of the
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The UK fails to join the WTO and heads for limbo
This report from Reuters seems to have attracted little follow in news coverage, and yet sums up all too well just what the state of
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The October Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network
In the October 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast the Taxcast: We speak to Nicholas Shaxson about his new book The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us
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The economic consequences of no deal
I know I said I would not be blogging over the last few days, but that gave me time to think. I thought about the
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Country-by-country reporting could raise £2.5 billion a year for the UK. So why aren’t we using it?
This post was written by Alex Cobham, chief executive of the Tax Justice Network and originally posted on their blog: 15 years ago the Tax Justice Network proposed
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It’s the coincidence of sentiment that provokes fear in markets and that’s happening right now
I wrote this in 2o10: The quantitative easing programme might be considered a short term success, but as we note, the benefit has been captured
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Fisking the NAO’s report on the UK’s border preparedness for Brexit
The National Audit Office has issued a report today on the UK’s preparedness for border controls as and when Brexit happens (as I think it will, I
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