Don’t get mad about Amazon and make the right ethical choice
The latest revelations of Amazon’s ginormous tax dodge are making many people mightily angry. The good news though is that you don’t have to get mad – you can get even by boycotting Amazon
By Simon Birch | Notebook | Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 5:48 pm
Crisis, what banking crisis? The rise of ethical banking in Britain
As far as the UK’s ethical banking sector is concerned the steady stream of headlines from the interest-rate fixing Libor scandal to the HSBC money laundering for drug barons has proved to be a marketing campaign from heaven.
By Simon Birch | Econoblog, Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 3 September 2012 at 11:15 am
The great Olympic tax swindle
With the country now on starters’ orders for the beginning of the London Games, the first winner has already been announced with the news that McDonald’s have become the first Olympic sponsor to refuse their Olympic tax break
By Simon Birch | Notebook, Olympics | Tuesday, 17 July 2012 at 4:00 am
Say no to tax avoidance for public service providers
If the Chancellor was serious about filling the gaping black hole in the country’s finances he’d have used the budget to stop the billions – yes billions of pounds that are gushing out of the economy every year via offshore tax havens.
By Simon Birch | Notebook, Opinion | Saturday, 24 March 2012 at 12:00 am
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