Last month, a UN report slammed the bedroom tax for causing Britain’s most vulnerable people into tremendous despair. The government brushed it off as “Marxist diatribe”. Needless to say, I didn’t agree.
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In a bid to shore up his right flank from the UKIP onslaught, David Cameron is once again suggesting the Tories could pledge to raise the inheritance tax threshold t the next election. It’ll be a popular measure for owners of the 3% of estates which actually pay the tax, but does it actually matter
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It would be an understatement to say that many large corporations have found their reputations dragged through the mud over their tax affairs. Google’s laudable pledge of “don’t be evil” backfired when British parliamentarians led by the combative Margaret Hodge decided that the company’s tax arrangements came across as just a little bit too evil
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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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The Tax Justice Network has released a report slamming Britain as the worst offender when it comes to financial secrecy thanks to its network of tax haven crown dependencies and overseas territories. I was back on RT News today responding to their report and calling on Britain to get its house in order.
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Austerity has extracted the last vestiges of “compassion” from conservatism, distilling what remains into policies so poisonously unfair they have led people unable to cope with the bedroom tax to suicide and self-harm, while thousands more are forced to choose between heating and eating. For those who want to see a market-driven economy with a
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Another Angry Voice says it all. Time we scrapped this disgusting bedroom tax.
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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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Britain has placed tax avoidance at the centre of the global agenda as it prepares to host the G8 summit in June. But despite the headlines generated by high profile cases such as Google, Amazon and Starbucks, tax avoidance is not just an issue for the UK and the other wealthy nations of the G8.
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My editorial from the April issue of International Tax Review. The annual circus of jibes, justifications and recriminations visited Britain again last month when Chancellor George Osborne unveiled his latest budget. Osborne faced a particularly rough ride this year, even with a tax agenda which has been broadly welcomed by British business. After all, with
