Governance News

HMRC Gives 200 Billionaires Personal Tax Managers

Everyone Else Keeps the Hold Music LONDON, England — HM Revenue and Customs has discovered that billionaires deserve something ordinary taxpayers have spent decades dreaming about. A human being who knows their name. HMRC Wealthy Taxpayer Compliance Strategy Explained The tax authority has identified more than 200 billionaires with UK tax obligations and assigned dedicated customer compliance managers to oversee their complicated financial affairs. According to HMRC’s official wealthy taxpayer…

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Who Should Control British Newspapers?

Who Should Control British Newspapers? Or: How Britain Accidentally Invented the World’s Most Polite Media Oligarchy There are countries where the press is controlled by the state. There are countries where the press is controlled by corporations. And then there is Britain, where the press is controlled by a small rotating cast of billionaires who all insist, with straight faces and folded napkins, that they are merely “custodians of tradition.”…