A tidy summation of the shutdown's politics
From The Washington Post's estimable Dan Balz, all you
need to know in a tidy paragraph:
"The elements
that produced this weekend’s government shutdown sum up the first year of
Donald Trump’s presidency: a dealmaking chief executive who can’t make a deal;
a divided Republican Party struggling to govern and in an uneasy relationship
with the president; and a Democratic Party tethered to its anti-Trump
progressive base in the face of political risk." - Carissa Byrne Hessick (North Carolina), Towards a Series of Academic Norms for #LawProf Twitter (Jan. 12, 2018)
- Derek Muller (Pepperdine), The Rise and Fall of My Use of Twitter (Jan. 16, 2018)
Noah Feldman (Harvard), Twitter's Not a Great Place for Legal Advice:
We have our first confirmed federal Twitter judge, Judge Don Willett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. More than 500 legal scholars both young and old, as well as sophisticated practitioners, use Twitter to comment, analyze and argue. From a practical perspective, legal Twitter is thriving.
But is legal Twitter a good thing? The question has been bouncing aroundon (surprise) Twitter — but without (surprise) any very sustained engagement.
This
matters because law professors serve a public function: They work out
the meaning of the law before it goes to the courts, and they explain
law to the public. If they’re doing a bad job, the legal system suffers.
Apple
announced a $38 billion tax windfall for the U.S. government this week,
but the biggest beneficiary of the company’s response to tax-system
changes will likely be its shareholders.
- HSBC Holdings Plc Agrees to Pay More Than $100 Million to Resolve Fraud Charges (19 Jan 2018)
- Apprenticeship company told schools how to exploit tax loopholes (19 Jan 2018)
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Tax-avoidance schemes are being offered up to the wealthy like holiday packages(19 Jan 2018)
- Tax overhaul leads AmEx to first loss in 26 years, buyback suspension (19 Jan 2018)
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Ryanair: HMRC and employment tsar may question airline over pay(19 Jan 2018)
- A special NHS tax would be bonkers or a total fraud (19 Jan 2018)
- Denmark
billed as 'perfect' tax haven (19 Jan 2018)
- France introduces strict cryptocurrency regulations to fight tax evasion (19 Jan 2018)
- Who gets a serving of Apple's tax pie? (19 Jan 2018)
- Imaginary
Taxes Can Have Real Consequences (19 Jan 2018)
- The Overlooked Economics of Trump's Tax Law (19 Jan 2018)
- HMRC owed £4.4bn in overdue Corporation Tax and VAT (19 Jan 2018)
- SMEs
owed £84bn in R&D tax relief (19 Jan 2018)
- MPs
on both sides back tax break for referendum campaign donors
(19 Jan 2018)
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Carillion was in dire financial trouble. Why did the government keep awarding it contracts?(18 Jan 2018)
- PFI deals 'costing UK taxpayers billions' (18 Jan 2018)
- UK Taxpayers to foot £200bn bill for PFI contracts, National Audit Office finds (18 Jan 2018)
- National Audit Office (NAO) Press release - PFI and PF2 (18 Jan 2018)
- National Audit Office (NAO) Report - PFI and PF2 (18 Jan 2018)
- Chemring: Serious Fraud Office opens bribery and corruption investigation into ammunition maker (18 Jan 2018)
- World-first
register to crack down on criminals laundering dirty money through UK
property market to go live by early 2021 (18 Jan 2018)
- Romania making little progress fighting corruption (18 Jan 2018)
- Former Head of Barclays New York Foreign Exchange Operation Indicted for Orchestrating Multimillion-Dollar Front-Running Scheme (18 Jan 2018)
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- To
improve global health, tax the things that are killing us
(18 Jan 2018)
-
No evidence of wrongdoing by German banks in 'Panama Papers': watchdog(18 Jan 2018)
-
Hacked Off chief is hired by Paradise Papers law firm(18 Jan 2018)
- France
to claw back €2.2bn Kerviel tax benefit from SocGen
(17 Jan 2018)
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Citibank counts cost of tax changes and accounting scandal at Steinhoff(17 Jan 2018)
- Apple, Returning Overseas Cash, to Pay $38 Billion Tax Bill (17 Jan 2018)
- Apple announces plans to repatriate billions in overseas cash, says it will contribute $350 billion to the US economy (17 Jan 2018)
- Swiss secrecy could slip further under plan to scrap anonymous shares (17 Jan 2018)
- EU to remove 8 countries from tax haven blacklist (17 Jan 2018)
- McKinsey, SAP, KPMG Face Criminal Complaints From South African Regulator (17 Jan 2018)
- Bitcoin
bank halts transfers over money-laundering fears
(17 Jan 2018)
- Loblaw,
CRA face off in court in $404-million tax avoidance dispute
(17 Jan 2018)
- To avoid more collapses like Carillion, put workers on company boards (16 Jan 2018)
- The UK needs to rethink its local taxes. It's time for land value tax (16 Jan 2018)
- Gas
and oil producers among hardest hit by US tax reforms
(16 Jan 2018)
- Paradise
Papers revealed 'commoditisation' of tax avoidance
(15 Jan 2018)
New York Times, Saying You Want to Reform the Tax Code? Easy. Doing It? Less So.:
It read like a maddening instruction manual for a do-it-yourself piece of furniture, with page after page of bare-bones guidance — and plenty of room for confusion.If taxpayers and lawmakers were expecting that a new 37-page reportwould provide a definitive road map of how New York State might sidestep the effects of President Trump’s new federal tax plan and its sharp reduction in the deductibility of state and local taxes, they instead got a view of just how complicated this is.