Avoiding avoidance
The growing difficulty of raising taxes in an era of globalisation has been underlined in both Britain and Germany in recent days. Both governments need to reduce their e...
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Call for free condoms to combat spread of HIV in prisons
Prisoners should be supplied with free condoms and given access to a needle-exchange system in an effort to combat soaring rates of hepatitis C and HIV among inmates, a r...
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Campaign inherits an award
The Cash team uncorked the champagne last week after scooping an award for our campaign this year on reforming inheritance tax.
Cash took the runner-up prize in the Pers...
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Fight for egalit? takes to the barricades
Current social unrest among French ethnic minorities is undeniably due to factors such as acute rates of unemployment, racism in the police force and the opportunistic la...
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Global case for shift payments
In his capacity as president of the European Union for six months, Tony Blair has just agreed with the president of France, Jacques Chirac, on a new "globalisation fund" ...
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Death and taxes - millions more estates 'will go over IHT threshold
Nearly four million estates will be potentially liable for inheritance tax by 2009, netting the government an estimated £5.2 billion.
Analysis of UK inheritance ta...
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Face to faith
Today people throughout Britain will be gathering round bonfires to celebrate the thwarting of the plot by Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators to blow up parliament. Tonig...
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Must I feel like the devil for working in finance?
Q I was wondering if you had any tips on "ethical" careers in the finance/banking sector based in London. The only places I seem to be able to find are investment funds r...
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ICI leads FTSE gains as profits beat forecasts
The focus was corporate fundamentals on the London market yesterday as a spate of strong earnings reports picked up where this week's bid speculation left off - combining...
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The mental block
Estimates of rates of stalking vary considerably, with 12 to 32 per cent of women reporting it having happened to them, and 4 to 17 per cent of men. To obtain more rigoro...
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Accounting & Auditing 
