Who are you kidding?
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007I’m told I was in Le Monde this weekend, being quoted about Bono. But what added a touch of irony was that on the opposite
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Cut tax relief
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007There is of course an answer to the problem of private equity. The UK would not be fleeced by this form of asset stripping if
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The Tax Top 50
Monday, February 12th, 2007Here’s taxbar.com’s top 50 movers and shakers in the tax world (with thanks to ‘Roger Rabbit’ for the tip off). Not a single campaigner in
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Private equity - a threat to the well-being of capitalism
Monday, February 12th, 2007Will Hutton was also writing in the Observer this weekend. I’m not a committed fan of Hutton’s. But he’s right about private equity: this is
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Corporate management - in the Soviet tradition
Monday, February 12th, 2007I am not a great fan of Sunday newspapers, by and large (and that’s despite having written for one for a while). The reason is
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Exploitation
Friday, February 9th, 2007I recently mentioned my occasional involvement in the campaign to impose an interest rate cap on those lenders who charge exorbitant fees in the secondary
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Subsidies are negative taxation
Friday, February 9th, 2007Companies the world over seem to call for two things. The first is a simplified tax code. The second are lower tax rates. Nowhere though
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Tax and corruption
Friday, February 9th, 2007People sometimes ask why the Tax Justice Network links tax and corruption quite so closely. This morning the FT reports: Vetco International, the UK oil
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Whose rules?
Thursday, February 8th, 2007Alex Hawkes at Accountancy Age has interviewed Helen Weir, FD of Lloyds TSB. Unlike HSBC who recently threatened to quit the UK she denied Lloyds
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