The Coalition Agreement promised that the coalition government ‘will make every effort to tackle tax avoidance’. Graham Aaronson and Steve Bousher (Joseph Hage Aaronson) give an end of term report on the coalition’s record in dealing with tax avoidance
Giorgia Maffini (Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation at Saïd Business School) reviews the coalition’s extensive reforms for making the UK attractive for foreign direct investment and mobile profits, and illustrates to what extent these have succeeded
The economy has come good in time for the election, in a way the coalition could hardly have dreamed of. The question is whether it will be enough to prevent a lurch into political instability, as David Smith reports.
Mr Osborne will be content with reaction to the Budget. It is far too soon to be confident, writes the FT's chief political commentator, Philip Stephens.
