Taking back the right to kick the can down the road
Monday, March 19th, 2018The UK and EU have, broadly speaking, agreed terms the transitional agreement until the time the UK applies for readmission to the EU leaves the
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Given that large companies are paying less tax the time has come for a corporation tax increase
Monday, March 12th, 2018The news that large companies are enjoying a steady decline in their real rates of tax, revealed by the FT, comes as no great surprise.
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The UK government was blatantly and unforgivably negligent to keep big business on side
Thursday, March 8th, 2018The Guardian has reported that: The EU executive has said the UK owes €2.7bn (£2.4bn) to Brussels for alleged failure to tackle customs fraud, as
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The UK finally gets a Fair Tax coffee options as AMT gets the Fair Tax Mark
Tuesday, March 6th, 2018As many readers here know I am a non-executive and unpaid director of the Fair Tax Mark, which issued the following press release this morning:
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What a customs border means - or what the Tories have promised Northern Ireland
Saturday, March 3rd, 2018This Twitter thread comes from Katy Hayward of Queen’s University Belfast. I thought it worth sharing. It looks like a reliable guide to me, if
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The end of the Union?
Saturday, March 3rd, 2018In her speech on Brexit yesterday Theresa May said: As we leave the European Union, we will forge a bold new positive role for ourselves
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Sometime soon Brexit gets to be very ugly
Thursday, March 1st, 2018You can make a binding promise that there will be regulatory convergence in Ireland. And you can promise no border in the Irish Sea to
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The shambles at the heart of British politics continues unabated
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018Corbyn might have made an astute political move yesterday. He got the crowd behind him. He even got George Osborne behind him. But let’s be clear
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On the balance of both probabilities and economic and political sanity Jeremy Corbyn did a good morning's work
Monday, February 26th, 2018I liked this sidebar from the Guardian at 1.30pm today: If the sidebar had been just a little longer it would also have shown that
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