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News updates: tax-dodging Germans and Andrew Rosindell
In February I reported on the question facing various governments in Europe: should they buy stolen data which will help identify law breaking tax-dodgers? The German government did this in 2008 and the threat of a repeat was sufficient to cause a mini-sampede of people confessing their sins. Nearly 2,500 Germans have now agreed to [...]
Daily View 2×2: 8 November 2009
It’s Sunday. It’s 7am. It’s time to find out how peanut butter is made. But first, the news.
2 Big Stories
Gordon Brown floats idea of tax on financial transactions
Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s idea of a financial transactions tax has received a lukewarm response from G20 countries.
The proposal, which took delegates by surprise at the meeting in [...]
German elections: getting your worst result since 1949 is a triumph
Angela Merkel is undoubtedly a big winner from the German federal election results – she gets to stay as Chancellor, and in a new coalition with her preferred partner, the FDP. But it’s a a slightly odd sort of triumph, for her party’s vote share fell slightly (by 0.6% or 0.5% depending on whether you look at [...]
