Eleven EU member states are pushing ahead with a plan to introduce a tiny tax on financial transactions. Four of Europe’s five largest economies are among them. Guess which one is missing? The UK House of Lords EU Subcommittee on Economic and Financial Affairs this week came out railing against the financial transaction tax (FTT), […]
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As David Cameron was in Brussels for vital talks on tackling tax havens, I was invited back on RT News to give my two tax compliant cents.
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This article was originally written for Left Foot Forward When David Cameron blindsided Ed Miliband with an in-out referendum on the EU last month, he hoped to deal a devastating blow to the opposition by painting the Conservatives as the party of democracy with its finger on the pulse of public opinion against an out
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It’s a bit of a cliché to fall back on the Bible of Monty Python if you’re a lefty, but when you’re dealing with something as timeless as Life of Brian, it’s no surprise there are parallels more than 30 years on. When John Cleese’s militant cries “but apart from better sanitation and medicine and
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David Cameron is taking his sabre to the Netherlands tomorrow, rattling it like a toy rattles when it’s thrown from a pram. On the agenda: Britain’s future in Europe. There will be the predictable xenophobic, nationalistic froth from the right calling for the UK to leave the European Union. Almost as dangerous, there will be
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