13 steps
Monday, June 16th, 2008I cam across this press release tonight from UNI-Europa Finance. Apparently they represent 237 finance workers’ trade unions although I’ll be candid, I’d never heard
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Bono: helping make poverty reality
Thursday, June 12th, 2008I haven’t written about Bono for a while, although what I have written about him remains among the regularly read pages on this blog. It’s
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40 years, near enough
Thursday, June 12th, 2008The Guardian has reported: The world is not running out of oil and can continue to produce hydrocarbons for the next 40 years provided restrictions
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Tesco: tax avoiding, again (this time it's Luxembourg)
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Private Eye’s dig into Tesco’s tax affairs continues. In the edition published today it has revelation of another tax avoidance scheme, this time based in
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Cayman: time to move on
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008I’m going to trust that my friends at Cayman NetNews are going to forgive me one of my occasional abuses of copyright and so reproduce
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Abolishing the domicile rule could have paid for this
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008The Guardian has reported that: Child poverty in Britain has increased for the second year in a row, government figures revealed yesterday, putting Labour’s target
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Taxing profit where it is made
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008The FT has said in an editorial comment: The goal for European fiscal policymakers should be a regime that enhances genuine competition among economies. It
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UK Companies do not pay a higher proportion of value added in tax
Monday, June 9th, 2008The FT has prominently reported that: Large British companies pay more in corporate taxes on the wealth they create than their competitors in Germany, France
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Who will pay corporation tax? That is the question
Monday, June 9th, 2008It’s interesting to note that there are two camps who want to attack my work on the Tax Gap. First there’s the camp who say:
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