Survival of the Richest: Europe’s role in supporting an unjust global tax system
Wednesday, December 7th, 2016I share the following press release from Eurodad which does, I think, disclose important new data on the way in which international tax practice is
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The Article 50 case makes clear how urgently the UK needs a written constitution
Tuesday, December 6th, 2016Lord Keen QC, the Scottish advocate general, put forward an extraordinary argument to the Article 50 hearing before the Supreme Court this morning, He claimed
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If democrats really believed in their cause they'd demand QE be used to back it
Monday, December 5th, 2016As the Guardian notes: The tweet from Italy’s most rightwing xenophobe was enough to send a chill down any liberal democrat’s spine. In the face
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Is the UK is proposing to use the worst form of unitary taxation?
Thursday, November 24th, 2016Deep in the Autumn Statement documentation there is the following paragraph: 4.26 Bringing non-resident companies’ UK income into the corporation tax regime — The government
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We don't need Blair, Branson & Co. What we need is a working Opposition
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016It is slightly scary that reports this morning suggest that Tony Blair and Richard Branson are both investing in efforts to overturn Brexit. Let me
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Councils are increasing the pressure on tax dodging companies
Monday, November 21st, 2016I am pleased to share the following from Christian Aid in association with the Fair Tax Mark, of which I am a director: Multinationals with
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The Irish economy: clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right
Saturday, November 12th, 2016I was on the radio in Ireland yesterday evening discussing the impact of Trump on its economy and tax policy. I made clear that Trump
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Gibraltar, the EU and a question of priorities: a little more on my reasoning
Thursday, November 3rd, 2016I wrote a blog yesterday that touched on the subject of Gibraltar. My reason was to comment on what I considered to be the inappropriate
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Real wages are still down from 2008
Friday, October 28th, 2016Geoff Tily at the TUC had some powerful graphs on changes in real wages from 2008 to 2016 yesterday. These address the claim that the
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