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Letters Paying tax is absolutely a moral issue
Never mind morals, tax is all about the rules , 21 May). A great many ordinary people see payment - or rather non-payment - of tax as fundamentally a moral question. Perhaps it might be talked about as justice or fairness, but it boils down to the same thing. Christian Aid supporters have been campaigning on matters of tax justice for five years.At the heart of their concern is the moral ...
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Google boss calls for a rational and predictable international tax system
Google boss Eric Schmidt, explaining his firm's tax affairs, says: 'Virtually all the American companies have tax structures like this, and UK companies operating in the US do too.' Photograph: Olivia ...
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George Osborne warned by IMF that cuts pose headwinds to growth
George Osborne was on Wednesday urged by the International Monetary Fund to rethink his plans for a 10bn tax-and-spending squeeze this year, as part of a broad based attack on the coalition's economic policies.After a fortnight's fact-finding mission in London, the Washington-based lender warned that the planned package of spending cuts and tax rises would "pose headwinds" to ...
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One dead as police attend serious incident in Woolwich
Terror in Woolwich: Britain 'will not buckle' in the face of terrorist attacks, says David Cameron after soldier is murdered in the ...
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Wagner wants England ‘to hate him’
New Zealand's Neil Wagner, second left, said he wanted to make England's batsmen hate him and get in their face as the Black Caps look to square the Test series. (AP Photo/Kirsty ...
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Man jailed for smothering mother
police said today.Robert Archbold, 49, said he got into a row with retired vet Jane Archbold, 77, at their home in Ambleside, Cumbria, and put his hand over her mouth "to shut her up".He admitted her unlawful killing on the grounds of diminished responsibility but had denied murder in a trial at Preston crown court.Archbold, known to family and friends as Adam, was arrested in nearby ...
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Sharon Osbourne returns to X Factor panel
The X Factor judging panel to replace Tulisa Contostavlos, ITV has confirmed.She will join Louis Walsh, Gary Barlow and Nicole Scherzinger - who have all signed up - on the ITV series when it comes back to screens later this year.Osbourne, last on the show as a judge six years ago, had been widely expected to return after it emerged she had been in negotiation with programme chiefs. She said she ...
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Country diary Crook County Durham Ive often seen bees infested with mites but rarely one so heavily laden
, fell from a truss of flowers and landed almost at my feet, brushing her legs over her furry back as if to rid herself of some irritation.When I knelt to look closely I could see the source of her apparent torment - dense clusters of pink mites, clinging to her fur in crevices that were beyond the reach of grooming. I've often ...
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Googles Eric Schmidt believes one company is an island
he suggested at a public event that laws older than 50 years or so shouldn't apply to internet companies, and that it might be fun to have an island where Google could dabble in new ideas without all the silly meddling of governments. (That's only a slight paraphrase.) The only way he could have seemed more like a Bond villain would be if he had been stroking a cat while speaking.While ...
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Afghan interpreters risk being failed by bureaucracy
Downing Street has denied reports that its scheme is open only to interpreters who lose their jobs as troops are withdrawn. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty ...
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Woolwich attack lone wolf and jihadist theories will occupy security forces
Police cordon off a road in Woolwich, London, after the incident in which one man was killed and two others seriously injured. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty ...
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Germany and Britain Push to List Hezbollah as a Terror Group
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Woolwich suspect believed to be involved in attack - video
Footage obtained by ITV which purports to show two men believed to be involved in a 'serious incident' in Woolwich, south east London, on Wednesday which has left one person dead and two others injured. The man, holding what appears to be a machete, talks to a passersby with the victim of the incident laying behind him in the ...
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Man hacked to death in London street in suspected militant attack
1 of 2. Police officers guard a cordon set up around a crime scene where one man was killed was killed in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, ...
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Shocking attack in England
Police forensics tents and officers are seen in Woolwich, east London, May 22, 2013. British police shot and wounded two men after a man thought to be a serving soldier was killed outside a London barracks, in an attack Prime Minister David Cameron called "truly shocking." In a dramatic move, the government's emergency response committee was being summoned following the killing ...
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Report highlights species decline in Britain
Conservationists say 60 percent of animal and plant species studied in Britain have declined in the past 50 years with bees and wildflowers the most vulnerable. A State of Nature report put together by 25 British wildlife organizations and assessing 3,148 species said reasons for species decline are "many and varied" but include rising temperatures and habitat degradation, the BBC ...
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European Leaders Take Steps in Cracking Down on Tax Fraud
PARIS -- The European Union has announced a series of measures to crack down on tax avoidance and fraud, including the automatic exchange of bank information to catch cheats. European Union President Herman Van Rompuy hailed as "unprecedented" a series of measures against tax evasion agreed to Wednesday by the bloc's 27 leaders during a brief summit in Brussels. Among them: ...
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Cameron Indications Suggest London Killing was Terror-related
British forensic officers attend the scene of an apparent attack which has left one man confirmed dead and two people wounded near Woolwich barracks in London, May, 22, ...
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Fiat Industrial aims to shift tax home to Britain
Fiat Industrial disputed as "absolutely false" reports Wednesday that Italy would lose 500 million euros ($646 million) in tax revenues if it moves its tax base to Britain after it completes a merger with its U.S.-based subsidiary CNH Global ...
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Woolwich attack in pictures Shocking scenes as man is beheaded in street
two suspected terrorists murdered the man in broad daylight .Some eyewitnesses said this attackers tried to behead him, before charging at police when they arrived on the scene in Woolwich, south east London.Metropolitan Police Commander Simon Letchford confirmed tonight that the two attackers were shot by armed officers.Prime Minister David Cameron called a crisis meeting , describing the ...
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Mount Everest Picture of bottleneck as climbers queue up to tackle worlds highest peak
This was the chaotic scene on Everest the day four climbers lost their lives in a stop-start traffic jam. Hundreds of climbers were stuck in the deadly tailback near the top of the world's highest mountain, losing body heat and using up precious oxygen supplies. Sixty years after the 29,029ft peak was first conquered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, overcrowding regularly puts ...
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April Jones trial Mark Bridger accidentally found child abuse images while looking for Spongebob Squarepants cartoon
April Jones murder accused Mark Bridger accidentally stumbled upon child abuse images while looking for Spongebob Squarepants cartoons for his daughter on the internet, a court heard today.When confronted about the stash of child porn allegedly found by police on his hard drive, the former slaughterman claimed he was amassing the sick images so he could write to foreign companies responsible for ...
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I am the beneficiary of the house-price boom. My children are its victims | Suzanne Moore
property is theft then I am a colossal thief. I sold my house via Foxtons. Thanks, Nick! See, I know how to get you onside; boasting of my palatial Hackney residence! The truth is that like anyone who bought property 20 years ago in London and tarted it up and just kind of lived in it, the profit made has nothing to do with my canniness or financial nous. It's just that house prices have ...
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Deficit national debt and government borrowing - how has it changed since 1946
Office for National Statistics said public sector net borrowing came in at 85.1 for the 2012-13 financial year. That's a 35.8bn improvement on the 120.9bn in the previous ...
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Bank of England remains divided on whether to continue with stimulus
LONDON--Bank of England policymakers remain divided on whether to provide more stimulus to the flat-lining economy, according to the minutes of their meeting in ...
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London bike sharing a success
London in July of 2010 became one of over 44 cities in the world to introduce an aspect of communal consumerism into its public transport system with the implementation of a bike-sharing network and just ten weeks later had recorded over 1 million trips taken, proving the initiative to be feasible and sustainable.
Bike-sharing has been around since as early as the 1960s when the first community bike-sharing scheme was introduced in the Netherlands, but it lacked formal sharing systems and was overly-reliant on the good nature of the public, leading to mass theft, which ultimately destroyed the system. Read more
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