A roasting for Starbucks..but a grilling for Hodge?
As the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) gets ready to grill multinational companies on tax avoidance, will its chairwoman declare her own interest?
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As world leaders at the G8 summit sign up to a plan to combat tax evasion and money laundering, David Cameron tells Channel 4 News it is a “big step forward”.
Internet giant Google is criticised for “brazen” attempts to reduce its liabilities in the UK while HMRC and Britain’s accountancy firms are under fire for “helping clients avoid taxes”.
Longer school days and shorter holidays could improve our academic performance, thinks Michael Gove. Top marks for the education secretary?
Women in the UK are less likely to be in work, experience lower job security and greater pay inequality than their counterparts in other developed countries, according to a new study.
Money from the UK’s official aid budget could be used to fund military operations to stabilise war-torn states says David Cameron. And aid agencies agree – up to a point.
Chancellor George Osborne renews his call for global action to tackle the problem of multinational companies which move their profits around to avoid tax.
As the government unveils its childcare reforms, should carers be better qualified and will costs fall for parents?
As the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) gets ready to grill multinational companies on tax avoidance, will its chairwoman declare her own interest?
The “big step forward” is the discovery of the Higgs boson particle at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland. Don’t worry – we’re not going try to FactCheck the existence of the “God particle”.
As G20 leaders in Mexico urge Europe to take act to end the eurozone debt crisis, EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso declares that the crisis originated in the US.
Gary Gibbon blogs on what will be a eurozone dominated G20.
French President Francois Hollande will be pushing plans for eurobonds at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels on Wednesday, an idea German Chancellor Angela Merkel flatly opposes.
Britain should cut interest rates and consider quantitative easing to stimulate growth, the IMF says, on the back of reports showing 3 per cent inflation and predicting the recession is almost over.
Venture capitalist Adrian Beecroft advises the government to cut red tape and make it easier to fire workers to save the economy. FactCheck doesn’t think it’ll do much good.
Chancellor George Osborne tells Channel 4 News he does not ‘disguise or run away from’ the latest figures showing the UK is back in recession.