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2013/05/22 20:52
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Google 'doing right thing' on tax
Google boss Eric Schmidt has insisted his company is trying to do the 'right thing' as it faces criticism in Britain over the amount of tax it pays, saying it is for countries, not companies, to...
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2013/05/22 17:29
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MPs Want Answers On Ruto's West Africa Trip
MPs yesterday asked for answers from the government on the controversial trip by Deputy President William Ruto where he used a luxury jet to tour different African countries. MPs said majority leader...
2013/05/22 17:23
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Google’s Eric Schmidt faces the tax question | Gu...
It is not often a multinational corporation in the eye of the storm holds an event in which the storm is set to intensify. Whatever you think of Google’s tax affairs they were very open today. In...
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2013/05/22 17:01
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UK taxpayers pay for the rich’s greed
UK taxpayers pay for the rich’s greed British people are struggling with their biggest squeeze on living standards at a time of austerity while many high-profile individuals, including the Royal...
2013/05/22 16:23
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How tax avoidance became the new 'evil'
Remember the days when criticism of tax avoidance was confined to left-wing protest groups? But that was before the cuts began to bite and austerity measures became the medicine du jour. And...
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2013/05/22 15:13
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What about Whitehall and town hall, shadow Cabine...
Labour frontbenchers are keeping their powder dry, understandably, when every word they utter will be used against them. The fiscal, political and constitutional conditions a Labour-led government...
2013/05/22 10:43
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PAC Report Highlights Invest NI Concerns
It added that it had seen "little evidence of meaningful, independent validation" of the Invest NI's performance data. The report makes nine recommendations, and included the setting of formal...
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2013/05/22 08:28
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Google Announces Finalists for £2M Charity Prizes
Google has announced the ten finalists in a competition to find the UK charity changing the world with technology. World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, is one of the judges of Google's Global...
Google UK Tim Berners-Lee Richard Branson Public Accounts Committee Matt Brittin
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2013/05/22 07:53
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UK taxing performance ‘extremely poor’
UK taxing performance ‘extremely poor’: MPs British parliament’s expenses watchdog has hit out at the government for its failure to tackle fraud at HM Revenue and Customs leading to an estimated £5...
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2013/05/21 20:26
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Apple's Tax Dodges: Where's the Public Outrage?
According to an ongoing congressional investigation, Apple, by setting up a shell company in Ireland, where it had negotiated a tax rate of two per cent or less, was able to pay minimal taxes on much...
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2013/05/21 16:49
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Work Capability Assessments have failed the test
Last year I wrote about my friend Yvonne, who had undergone an Atos Work Capability Assessment (WCA) and been placed in the Work Related Activity Group, meaning she was expected to attend the...
Yvonne Greg Wood David Cameron Public Accounts Committee HM Courts and Tribunals Service
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2013/05/21 14:49
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Chiltern Society urges government to have ‘courag...
Society chairman David Harris said the government had recently suffered several knock-backs over the scheme and must now take stock of the railway, which would cut through the Vale. He said: “First,...
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2013/05/21 14:48
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David Cameron asks UK biz to pay their low, low t...
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has told a quarterly meeting of the government's business advisory group that in return for lower taxes, companies should really pay the tax they do owe, while business...
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2013/05/21 12:39
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'Shocking example of incompetence' over stockpile...
Around 6.5 million units of the Tamiflu bought by the Department of Health also had to be written off because it could not guarantee the antiviral had been stored correctly, the National Audit Office...
Tamiflu Department of Health National Audit Office Margaret Hodge NHS
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2013/05/21 09:43
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Amazon, Google and Apple won't need to pay tax, d...
IT WAS A BUSY WEEK for technology companies explaining their tax situations. The week started off with news that a £150m rural mobile contract had been awarded to Arqiva, the firm that in January...
2013/05/21 09:08
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Nearly €14m in over-payments by the Social Securi...
The Social Security Department mistakenly issued nearly €14 million in overpayments to clients, ten million of which consisted in non-contributory benefits. The Minister for the Family and Social...
Public Accounts Committee Training Corporation Tonio Fenech Claudio Grech Sina
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2013/05/21 07:29
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Iain Duncan Smith's Work Programme 'Failing the V...
The Work Programme has met with criticism from MPs once again (Reuters) A cross-party group of politicians launched a stinging attack on the government's flagship welfare-to-work scheme, accusing it...
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2013/05/21 07:09
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Business news and markets
The company has also increased its full-year dividend by 16pc to 29p. Revenue also increased, up 8pc to £2bn for the year. Angela Ahrendts, chief executive officer said; Finishing the year with a...
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2013/05/21 00:13
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Google faces new pressure over tax claims
HM Revenue and Customs is investigating fresh lines of inquiry into Google's tax affairs after interviewing a former executive at the company who gave anonymous evidence to parliament, the Guardian...
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2013/05/20 22:43
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Diary: we're holding out for a hero over tax. Cou...
... It must have seemed a no-brainer. The people who rule the 21st century offering a platform to the man who would run the country. And so it was little surprise that Ed Miliband made himself...
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