Populism is now driving the onshoring of tax havens - and beating that agenda should now be the tax justice movement's priority
Friday, October 8th, 2021I take the newsletter of the US-based Patriotic Millionaires as one amongst the many sources I use for blogging. I don’t always agree with it:
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The real message from the Pandora Papers is that it is the fight to save democracy that is the big offshore issue now
Thursday, October 7th, 2021The Pandora Papers have come, and will soon be gone. The important thing about them is to note what we have learned. In my opinion,
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Johnson is living out his fantasy because Labour aren’t offering an alternative vision anyone can buy into
Thursday, October 7th, 2021I watched much of Boris Johnson’s speech yesterday. Thankfully, he recognised it was almost entirely content free and got it over quite quickly. But what
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Transparency Principles for Tax Policy and Administration: a public consultation from October 2021 to January 2022
Wednesday, October 6th, 2021I share this post from the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency, which promotes a public consultation based on work I have done with Prof Andrew
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Labour has a choice to make. It can say it will balance the books or it can deliver political change, but it can’t do both
Wednesday, October 6th, 2021I noted the Politics Home email this morning suggesting that whilst the Tories have made almost no policy announcements in Manchester this week they have
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Sunak: a Chancellor without a moral compass or an understanding of economics
Tuesday, October 5th, 2021Yesterday’s speech by Rishi Sunak was, as I mentioned in a tweet I posted just after he spoke, almost entirely vacuous when it came to
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Why are so many well known firms of accountants still operating in tax havens?
Tuesday, October 5th, 2021The Pandora Papers continue to draw attention to tax abuse. As I mentioned yesterday, the real need is to mention solutions though. We have known
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The Pandora Papers are old news: the question is whether the measures now being taken are already impacting what is happening offshore?
Monday, October 4th, 2021I have not given the so-called Pandora Papers that are exciting some of the media and the tax justice movement much attention. There are a number
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Fighting for competition
Friday, October 1st, 2021I post this from my friends and colleagues at The Counterbalance, with their permission: Taking on vested interests in Greece Anti-monopoly regulators can be powerful,
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