Kevin Farnsworth

Most major businesses in the UK want closer ties with the EU. Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire/PA Images

Why the UK has no clear party of business

The Conservatives and Labour have two radically distinct visions – but both propose widespread interruption to ‘business as usual’.
All smiles at 11 Downing Street. EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga

UK budget 2017: experts respond

Philip Hammond delivers his last Spring Budget on the state of the UK economy. Our panel of experts dissect what it says.
Google vice president Matt Brittin (right) and John Dixon, Ernst and Young’s head of tax (left), giving evidence to a Public Accounts Committee on tax avoidance in 2013. PA / PA Archive

How governments are helping big companies pay less tax

Governments may pledge to stop big companies from exploiting tax avoidance loopholes, but are they being honest?

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