It's true- small business really does pay tax at higher rates than big business in the UK.
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011I am a regular critic of the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation, and I think with very good reason, but I also give credit where
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Neoliberal tax specialists can't have it both ways - it can't be both not offshore and not onshore
Friday, February 11th, 2011Sometimes an article hits a nail on the head. George Monbiot did that with his article on the UK as a tax haven on Monday.
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Corporation Tax Cuts Don’t Lead To Prosperity
Monday, January 24th, 2011The following is shamelessly re-posted by me from the Socialist Economic Bulletin blog. It’s far too important to ignore. It’s by Michael Burke and I
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Why Tories like facts
Friday, January 21st, 2011Quote of the day (so far) from Simon Jenkins in the Guardian: Tories have always liked facts — dates, places, weights and measures — because
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What is the alternative to an economy built on finance?
Friday, January 14th, 2011Another good letter from the Guardian today: I fully sympathise with those who rail against bankers’ bonuses, but there is a danger of falling into
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Tax havens: In a sea of trouble
Thursday, January 13th, 2011As the FT has noted today: Offshore centres continue to face questions about their role in the financial crisis, in what International Financial Centres Forum,
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Middle Britain and the tax protests
Thursday, December 16th, 2010The Daily Mail is a paper I usually read to see what the other side of the debate is thinking. But then this week it
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We must get off the learn-to-earn treadmill
Friday, December 10th, 2010From today’s Guardian, from a great many signatories, me included: We write in support of Michael Chessum’s article (Today is our 1968 moment, 9 December).
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It hasn’t worked for Ireland and it won’t work now (for them or us)
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010As the Guardian notes this morning: Ireland reluctantly began four years of tax rises and brutal cuts to social welfare after its parliament narrowly passed
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