Good corporate governance is not a matter determined by company ownership alone
Monday, July 26th, 2021As the FT has reported this morning: Sir James Wates, chair of the Wates Group, one of the UK’s largest family-owned construction companies, said proposals
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Why the government is lying when it says it cannot afford pay awards for the NHS and the police
Friday, July 23rd, 2021I just posted this thread on Twitter: The government gave some staff in the NHS a pay rise yesterday, and then said that the cost
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The Global Green New Deal Declaration
Tuesday, July 20th, 2021The Global Green New Deal was launched last night at an event I attended (virtually, of course). This is the Declaration that underpins that Green
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Of all the options available to pay for social care national insurance is easily the worst
Tuesday, July 20th, 2021I have posted this threat to Twitter this morning: The idea that national insurance should pay for the increased cost of social care for the
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It is vital that companies are accountable for their tax - but existing accounting rules do not require that
Monday, July 19th, 2021I have published a report this morning that reviews tax disclosures in the accounts of Tesco plc. The question I asked is ‘do the accounts
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Do the accounts of major companies add up when it comes to tax?
Monday, July 19th, 2021The Corporate Accountability Network has published a new report on the tax accounting of Tesco plc this morning. It’s important to note that Tesco was
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The Lords should redo its homework on QE and reissue their report. They asked the wrong people the wrong questions and got the wrong answers
Friday, July 16th, 2021There is quite a lot of fuss in the economics pages of newspaper today about a new report on quantitative easing from the House of
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The Tax Justice Network's review of the State of Tax Justice is not credible
Wednesday, July 14th, 2021I have this morning published a new report that considers the appropriateness of the claims made in the Tax Justice Network’s (TJN) State of Tax
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The increase in wealth inequality during Covid is not an accident: it is a design fault that needs to be corrected
Monday, July 12th, 2021The Resolution Foundation has published a report this morning in the massive increase in wealth that the wealthiest in the UK have enjoyed during the
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