The UK is defending tax abuse, not promoting 'tax competition'
Friday, June 19th, 2015The Guardian has reported that: Britain will reject plans announced in Brussels this week to combat industrial-scale tax avoidance by the world’s biggest multinationals, the
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The lawyers are still abusing
Thursday, June 11th, 2015The communique from the G8 summit ion Lough Erne in Northern Ireland in 2013 said: [E]ach of us will … tackle this issue to ensure
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Lansley's NHS reforms have failed. Now it is time to sweep them away
Thursday, June 4th, 2015I wrote yesterday about the failure of the market in the NHS. Within hours the Guardian had reported: NHS regulators are to take control of
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Can anyone in Labour seriously be proposing the City State of London?
Monday, June 1st, 2015I read this with quiet horror in the Guardian: London should be treated as a city state and given tax-raising powers to match its equal
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My Queen's Speech: a radical programme for the UK
Tuesday, May 26th, 2015Tomorrow is Queen’s Speech day. No government that might have been elected would have presented the programme I would wish for. These would have been
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The EU encourages immigration and tax abuse
Friday, May 22nd, 2015A decade ago it would have been hard to imagine the issues of immigration and tax avoidance being so prominent in news headlines, but as
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Neither tax or politics is about managerialism
Monday, May 18th, 2015I am already depressed by the Labour Party’s leadership election. I should declare an interest: I could vote, I think, as I am a member
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What taxing powers should be devolved?
Thursday, May 14th, 2015This comes from the FT this morning and given the importance of the issue I offer no apology for the length of the quote: There
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The speech I'd have made on the economy if I was Ed Miliband
Monday, May 4th, 2015It has become commonplace to moan about the fact that Ed Miliband and Labour have not defended their record from 1997 to 2010 becomes too
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