On Wednesday afternoon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, unveiled his 2017 budget – in fact, the first of two he’ll announ...
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Below is a bit of nonsense I wrote and stuck on my blog on June 26, three days after the citizens of the United Kingdom had voted for us to leave the...
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Mega companies avoiding tax is a subject that isn’t going to go away. Nor should it – that is, as a talking point. In an ideal world the a...
Read MoreFINANCE: The Apple Story – and the Store
Last week Sir (just about for now) Philip Green appeared before a parliamentary select committee looking into the collapse of one of his former compan...
Read MoreFINANCE: The company that went under and the knighthood which might follow
Panama used to be principally famous for a couple of things: its canal and its hats. Now it’s famous for Mossack Fonseca, the offshore business...
Read MoreFINANCE: Panama prat – Cameron and the offshore cronies
There was no other way to look at it: the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, chose to sweeten the budget yesterday with news of a ‘su...
Read MoreFINANCE: A sweet and sour budget as George O prepares for the BoJo showdown
During the last week of January, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced a settlement with the technology giant Google by which the...
Read MoreFINANCE: Google & Co: fiddling and wriggling out of corporate tax obligations
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