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- No end to the controversy - 23/01/2013Brendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust and a former Member of the European Parliament, has commented as follows on Mr Cameron’s speech on Britain’s position in the European Union:...
- Prospects for a referendum on Europe - 15/01/2013Report on discussion at the Federal Union committee The prime minister will give his long-awaited speech on his new Europe policy this coming Friday. In it, he will announce a...
- Federal Union review of 2012 - 05/01/2013The most important outcome of the past 12 months is that the eurozone survived. The world was poised on the edge of a financial precipice at the beginning of last...
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- Trade war over gambling - 30/01/2013International trade disputes often shine a light on odd behaviour, and the dispute between the United States and the tiny Caribbean island country Antigua and Barbuda is no exception. Originally...
- The wrong conclusion on welfare reform - 24/01/2013In his speech on Europe yesterday, David Cameron observed that Europe, with seven per cent of the world’s population and 25 per cent of world GDP, accounts for 50 per...
- The Speech - 23/01/2013So we have finally heard The Speech. David Cameron spoke this morning to outline what Conservative party policy on Europe would be after the next election. (Read the speech here.)...
tax havens Archive
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The power of the markets
Posted on 14/09/2012 | No CommentsIt is 20 years ago that the UK fell out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism, an important anniversary for both pro-Europeans and their opponents. The opponents of course claim that the failure of the ERM shows that fixed exchange rates between countries are a bad... -
The case against Rupert Murdoch
Posted on 02/05/2012 | 1 CommentPassing judgement on Rupert Murdoch appears to be today’s fashion, and this blog is not one to shirk a challenge. His dislike of the EU is well-known, as are the anti-European opinions of his newspapers, as is the eurosceptic influence he has had on British... -
Strike!
Posted on 30/11/2011 | No CommentsTrade union leader Dave Prentis was on the radio this morning, while up to 2 million public sector workers are on strike protesting at cuts to their pensions, criticising the government’s approach to sorting out the public finances. Why should the poorest bear such a... -
Companies try to reduce their tax bills shock
Posted on 12/10/2011 | No CommentsA report by Action Aid has revealed that 98 of the companies in the FTSE 100 have set up subsidiaries in tax havens in order to reduce their UK tax bills. (Read about the report here.) Some of those subsidiaries may well relate to the... -
How corporate tax evasion can be tackled worldwide
Posted on 20/12/2010 | No CommentsLetter in the Financial Times, published 20 December 2010 Sir, Contrary to Michael Skapinker’s fears, a crackdown on corporate tax evasion can be delivered with something less than world government (“Companies face the people’s fury over taxes”, December 14). An international treaty to agree a... -
How to make companies pay tax
Posted on 17/12/2010 | No CommentsSaturday is a day of action by tax campaigners UK Uncut against companies that do not seem to be paying their fair share of tax. I have some reservations about the campaign even while endorsing the basic principle. A particular concern is the way that... -
Unfair tax havens
Posted on 26/02/2009 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in the Daily Telegraph, 26 February 2009 SIR – Irwin Stelzer supports a crackdown on “illegal” tax havens (Comment, February 25), but the real point is that tax havens are currently legal. We need an international agreement on how to identify... -
Tax havens
Posted on 28/08/2007 | No CommentsThe front page story in today’s Financial Times makes interesting reading. “One-third of biggest businesses pays no tax” runs the headline. The article itself points out various ways in which large companies might avoid paying corporation tax – by claiming capital allowances for investment, for...
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