David Gauke sings the praise of Barclays and PWC's Mickey Mouse tax accounting
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011I note David Gauke, the Treasury Minister responsible for H M Revenue & Customs, has made a speech today to the Hundred Group of FTSE
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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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Bring on the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base
Monday, February 7th, 2011As the FT notes: Ambitious plans for a pan-European corporate tax system that gained new momentum at a summit of European leaders on Friday could
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The FT misses the point on corporation tax
Monday, February 7th, 2011Vanessa Houlder is a journalist who usually writes good articles for the FT. This morning she delivers an exception. When writing about tax protests she
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ConDems: we don’t want to tax business
Thursday, November 25th, 2010David Gauke, the Exchequer Secretary said on Tuesday: As a Government we’re not interested in large hikes in business taxation. They are for everyone else,
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The elephant in the macroeconomy
Thursday, July 15th, 2010I was at a Smith Institute debate this morning, focusing on the budget. Several insights flowed from the debate, which was chaired by my Green
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Republican economics
Friday, June 11th, 2010Republican economics ¬´ Real-World Economics Review Blog. A study has revealed: The more you study economics the more likely you are to be Republican and
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Business demands 15% Uk corporation tax
Thursday, March 11th, 2010‘Slash the tax’ – Accountancy Age. My friends down at Oxford University ran an event recently on controlled foreign company rules, but it looked as
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More on tax incidence – and why corporation taxes work
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010I knew that re-opening blog comments and writing on tax incidence on the same day was going to attract attention, and it did. Tim Worstall
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