The rich are revolting
Monday, June 11th, 2007Which is an apt summary of an article in the Guardian today, which goes under the title “Wealth gap grows and solidarity fades as rebellion
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The other side
Friday, June 8th, 2007Evey now and again one has a duty to present the other side of the picture. Given it’s this blogs birthday I thought I should
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No low tax for Northern Ireland
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007Some welcome news from the FT: Plans by Northern Ireland’s new power-sharing executive to stimulate foreign investment by cutting corporation tax have been dashed. In
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Northern Ireland - a tax haven in the making?
Friday, May 11th, 2007A corespondent sent me the following. I could have edited it, but I wont. It seems a fair summary: Now that the northern Irish have
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Irish lawyer - dodging the EU Code of Conduct
Monday, April 30th, 2007Finfacts, one of the best sources of what is going on in Ireland, has reported: Cruickshank, Ireland’s leading firm of patent and intellectual property attorneys,
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Ireland - Sic Transit gloria
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007It looks like Microsoft’s love affair with Ireland is fleeting. According to the Irish Independent (behind a registration wall) in the past two years Microsoft’s
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The UK is an offshore finance centre - according to an IMF study
Thursday, April 19th, 2007The IMF have issued a working paper in the last few days with the headline grabbing title ‘Concept of Offshore Financial Centers: In Search of
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Tax Justice Focus - The Inequality Issue
Monday, April 16th, 2007The Tax Justice Network has issued the first quarter 2007 edition of Tax Justice Focus. It is a special edition on inequality. As it notes:
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EU Savings Directive - moves in the right direction
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007The FT confirms the story I mentioned here a couple of weeks ago – that the EU is looking hard at how to close loopholes
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