The Guardian: Amazon halved UK corporation tax bill to £4.5m last year

When the police step in in this fashion you know you have hit a nerve. Read here

Portugal has abandoned austerity – maybe not in a radical manner – but even then the nation’s citizens and economy are faring much better than it ever did under austerity. Read here  

This is another lengthy piece by Bill Mitchell, but well worth taking the time to read. As he writes: “the problem of tax avoidance and evasion is not fiscal. Progressives get stuck on that point. […]