Country-by-country reporting is beating transfer mispricing, as I always said it would
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022As Accountancy Age has reported: A 49% uptick in the amount of extra tax collected from investigations into large corporates shifting profits overseas is an
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Johnson has no idea about how to help those in poverty when there is so much he could do
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022I have posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Susanna Reid interviewed Boris Johnson on ITV yesterday morning. He had no answers to her questions
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The UK has a constitutional duty to impose direct rule on the BVI to bring its role as a secrecy jurisdiction to an end
Monday, May 2nd, 2022The FT has noted that: The acting premier of the British Virgin Islands, Natalio Wheatley, has rejected as “unacceptable” the reimposition of direct rule from
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The Bank of England does not have a duty to push people into poverty
Monday, May 2nd, 2022I cannot have been alone and being appalled at comments made by former Bank of England employee and Monetary Policy Committee member Adam Posen, who
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Corruption in the British Virgin Islands? Whatever next?
Friday, April 29th, 2022The Guardian reports this morning that: The premier of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has been arrested in a sting operation in Miami on charges of
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We need a windfall tax on energy companies but no one should pretend this will solve the economic crisis we are facing
Thursday, April 28th, 2022Rumour has it that Rishi Sunak is planning a windfall tax on energy companies to supposedly address the so-called cost of living crisis, after all.
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The government would rather people starve or be homeless than create new money
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022I posted this Twitter thread this morning as a reaction to the government’s desire to take ‘non-fiscal steps’ to tackle the recession that is now
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The Tories want to end the cost of living crisis without any additional government spending. Their disconnection from reality is almost complete.
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022As Politico notes this morning: Boris Johnson will hold a Cabinet meeting this morning where he will order his senior ministers to get to grips
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It's time for a new path on the economic crisis that we face
Saturday, April 23rd, 2022As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Danny Blanchflower and I have written a feature for The Mirror on how to get out of
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