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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 21 SPORT | 34 300 Chinese firms to Al Hamad completeses take part in Made in 12-hour endurancee China expo challenge MONDAY 16 MAY 2016 • 9 SHA’BAAN 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6798 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar OPINION Quality certificate Emir meets Eni CEO must for importing building materials Dr. Khalid Al-Shafi Editor-in-Chief materials entering the country,” said Al QU President... Kuwari, addressing a press conference The Ministry will yesterday. a job well-done soon start issuing “We are monitoring the entry points specification certificates and taking samples from imported con- atar University is the struction materials,” he added. sole national university for gabbro and The Qatar General Organisation for Qto which every Qatari limestone in line with Standardization (QS) at the ministry has (leadership and people) attribute asked producers of gabbro, limestone being great appreciation and respect. the Qatar Construction exported to Qatar to provide their prod- Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi at Al Bahr Palace There is no doubt that the uni- Specifications (QCS). uct profile to check compliance with the yesterday. They reviewed cooperation in the field of energy. versity has faced, during the specifications. recent period a time of admin- Dr Al Kuwari said that at the beginning istrative sluggishness which has of the implementation of QCS, some con- led to delays in effecting impor- By Mohammed Osman sidered it as an obstacle causing delays but Emir’s message to tant decisions which might have The Peninsula now it is being appreciated by everyone. -
Corruption in Context: Social, Economic and Political Dimensions
CHAPTER 1 CORRUPTION IN CONTEXT: SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DIMENSIONS GLOBAL CORRUPTION: LAW, THEORY & PRACTICE CONTENTS 1. WHY CORRUPTION MATTERS: THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF CORRUPTION 2. THE MANY FACES OF CORRUPTION 3. DRIVERS OF CORRUPTION 4. PERCEPTIONS AND MEASUREMENTS OF CORRUPTION 5. MORE ISSUES ON MEASURING AND UNDERSTANDING CORRUPTION 6. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CORRUPTION LAWS 7. DIVERGENT POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC VIEWS ON CORRUPTION 8. A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION 9. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND CORRUPTION 10. SUCCESSES AND FAILURES IN INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF CORRUPTION: GOOD GOVERNANCE 11. ANOTHER CASE STUDY: BAE ENGAGES IN LARGE-SCALE CORRUPTION IN SAUDI ARABIA 1. WHY CORRUPTION MATTERS: THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF CORRUPTION 1.1 A Case Illustration of the Impact of Corruption The TV report noted below investigates the cancellation of World Bank funding ($1.2 billion loan) for a major bridge proposal (worth nearly $3 billion) in Bangladesh. The bridge is critical to both the economic growth of the country and the safety of hundreds of thousands of poor Bangladesh citizens who cross the Padma River daily in crowded, unsafe boats.1 The World Bank cancelled funding for the bridge project because very senior politicians and officials in the Bangladesh government allegedly solicited bribes from bidding companies. SNC-Lavalin allegedly agreed to pay those bribes in order to get the engineering contract (worth $50 million) to supervise the bridge construction. SNC-Lavalin is one of the five 1 “SNC and a Bridge for Bangladesh” CBC, the National, Investigative Report (15 minutes), aired May 15, 2013, online: <http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV+Shows/The+National/ID/2385492220/>. -
Occupy London Tours: City Tour Script
Occupy London Tours: City Tour Script 1. St Paul’s (both) 2. Temple Bar (Paul) 3. St Paul’s Cross (Dan) 4. St Mary Le Bow (Dan) 5. Royal Exchange (Paul) 6. Lloyds (Paul) 7. Bank of England (Paul) 8. City of London Corporation (Dan) 9. University of Chicago (Paul) 10. TheCityUK (Dan) 11. Deutsche Bank (Dan) 12. City/Tower Hamlets border (both) + Extra Fact sheet Remember: ● chalk ● stock cube ● Bible ● masking tape ● quotes ● hats ● umbrellas ● mics ● pipe/cigar 1/26 1. Steps of St Paul’s (D & P) [D] ● Welcome to the Occupy London Tour of the City of London – England’s smallest city. ● My name’s Daniel, and I’m Paul – and we’re your tour guides today. ● Occupy London Tours is a nonprofit group run by volunteers, aiming to demystify the world of finance with three tours that show London’s major role in creating it and shaping what it looks like today. ● Disclaimer As you might notice along the way, w e’re not professional tour guides, so all our tours are free and we don’t accept donations.The tour lasts just over two hours and ends up by Liverpool St station. ● Feel free to take pictures or film any bits of the tours you like, and to tweet if you like on Twitter we’re @ OccupyTours.And if you can’t hear at any point during the tour, just hold up the fist of struggle! ● If you have any questions, or feel we’ve left something important out by all means butt in, but if it’s probably better to catch us between stops as there’s a lot to cram in! ● We’re looking for new guides so we can do more tours. -
Britain in Psychological Distress: the EU Referendum and the Psychological Operations of the Two Opposing Sides
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, HUMANITIES AND ARTS DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN STUDIES MASTER’S DEGREE OF INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Britain in psychological distress: The EU referendum and the psychological operations of the two opposing sides By: Eleni Mokka Professor: Spyridon Litsas MIPA Thessaloniki, 2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS Summary ……………………………………………………………………………… 5 INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………………………. 6 CHAPTER ONE: OVERVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS ………….. 7 A. Definition and Analysis …………………………………………………………… 7 B. Propaganda: Techniques involving Language Manipulation …………………….. 11 1. Basic Propaganda Devices ……………………………………………………... 11 2. Logical Fallacies ……………………………………………………………….. 20 C. Propaganda: Non-Verbal Techniques …………………………………………… 25 1. Opinion Polls …………………………………………………………………… 25 2. Statistics ………………………………………………………………………… 32 CHAPTER TWO: BRITAIN‟S EU REFERENDUM ………………………………. 34 A. Euroscepticism in Britain since 70‟s ……………………………………………... 34 B. Brexit vs. Bremain: Methods, Techniques and Rhetoric …………………………. 43 1. Membership, Designation and Campaigns‟ Strategy …………………………… 44 1.a. „Leave‟ Campaign …………………………………………………………… 44 1.b. „Remain‟ Campaign …………………………………………………………. 50 1.c. Labour In for Britain ………………………………………………………… 52 1.d. Conservatives for Britain ……………………………………………………. 52 2. The Deal ………………………………………………………………………… 55 3. Project Fear …………………………………………………………………..…. 57 4. Trade and Security; Barack Obama‟s visit ……………………………………... 59 3 5. Budget and Economic Arguments ……………………………………………… 62 6. Ad Hominem -
Corporate Tax Avoidance: Where Next for Policy and Practice?
Journal of Tax Administration Vol 3:1 2017 IFS Residential Conference 2016 Review IFS RESIDENTIAL CONFERENCE 2016 – CORPORATE TAX AVOIDANCE: WHERE NEXT FOR POLICY AND PRACTICE? Nigar Hashimzade1 The annual IFS Residential Conference was held on 9-10 September, 2016 at Magdalen College, Oxford. This was organised with the support of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and the Tax Journal. Speakers and delegates from academic institutions, government departments, NGOs and the tax profession were welcomed by Malcolm Gammie (QC, IFS Tax Law Review Committee and One Essex Court) and Paul Johnson (IFS). The focus of first day of the conference was primarily on the UK context. The first plenary session, chaired by Helen Miller (IFS), was dedicated to the design and assessment of measures to stop tax avoidance. The agenda for the panel was stated as follows: There have been many new anti-avoidance measures in recent years. This panel will explore what we know about how effective such policies have been to date, and whether policy – including the use of soft law – is moving in the right direction. An overarching question is whether assessments of past and proposed policies are fit for purpose, including to what extent they form the basis for designing more effective laws. Surjinder Johal, from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), revealed that the OBR has evaluated 59 anti-avoidance and operational measures announced since 2010, and concluded that there were more underperforming than over-performing measures. The number of anti- avoidance measures has been increasing since 2012. -
John Curtice, Stephen Fisher, Robert Ford and Patrick English
APPENDIX 1: THE RESULtS ANaLYSED John Curtice, Stephen Fisher, Robert Ford and Patrick English The outcome of the 2017 election seems to pose a serious challenge to claims about the decline of Britain’s two-party system. No less than 84.5% of the UK-wide vote was cast for either the Conservatives or Labour, well above the proportion at any election since 1970. At 2.88, the effective number of parties in the electorate (as conventionally calculated) is still somewhat above two, but is now well down on the figure of 3.71 that pertained as recently as 2010.1 But the term ‘two-party system’, is often used to imply more than two parties dominating the vote. Amongst other things, it is also taken to refer to a system in which power and ministerial office alternate between the Conservatives and Labour, one of whom, thanks to the electoral system, always enjoys an overall majority in the House of Commons. But in 2017 no single party secured an overall major- ity, and the election resulted in a minority Conservative government backed by a ‘confidence and supply’ arrangement with the DUP. This fol- lows an election in 2010 which also resulted in a hung parliament (and the formation of the country’s first post-war coalition) and another in 2015 that gave the Conservatives a majority of just 12, a majority that in precipi- tating the early 2017 ballot Theresa May indicated was too small. There is another reason to question whether the outcome of the 2017 election necessarily represented a return to some kind of ‘normality’. -
Master Thesis Would Not Have Been Possible Without the Help and Support of Many Great People, Who Accompanied Me During My Studies and Beyond
Halbautomatisches Erstellen von Concept Maps DIPLOMARBEIT zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Diplom-Ingenieur im Rahmen des Studiums Software Engineering/Internet Computing eingereicht von Christoph Presch, BSc Matrikelnummer 0602554 an der Fakultät für Informatik der Technischen Universität Wien Betreuung: Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Eduard Gröller Mitwirkung: Univ.Ass. Dr.techn. Manuela Waldner, MSc Wien, 20. August 2020 Christoph Presch Eduard Gröller Technische Universität Wien A-1040 Wien Karlsplatz 13 Tel. +43-1-58801-0 www.tuwien.at Semi-Automatic Creation of Concept Maps DIPLOMA THESIS submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Diplom-Ingenieur in Software Engineering/Internet Computing by Christoph Presch, BSc Registration Number 0602554 to the Faculty of Informatics at the TU Wien Advisor: Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Eduard Gröller Assistance: Univ.Ass. Dr.techn. Manuela Waldner, MSc Vienna, 20th August, 2020 Christoph Presch Eduard Gröller Technische Universität Wien A-1040 Wien Karlsplatz 13 Tel. +43-1-58801-0 www.tuwien.at Erklärung zur Verfassung der Arbeit Christoph Presch, BSc Hiermit erkläre ich, dass ich diese Arbeit selbständig verfasst habe, dass ich die verwen- deten Quellen und Hilfsmittel vollständig angegeben habe und dass ich die Stellen der Arbeit – einschließlich Tabellen, Karten und Abbildungen –, die anderen Werken oder dem Internet im Wortlaut oder dem Sinn nach entnommen sind, auf jeden Fall unter Angabe der Quelle als Entlehnung kenntlich gemacht habe. Wien, 20. August 2020 Christoph Presch v Danksagung Diese Diplomarbeit wäre ohne die Unterstützung und Hilfe von vielen großartigen Men- schen, die mich durch mein Studium und darüber hinaus begleitet haben, nicht möglich gewesen. -
HMRC Finance, Room C4, South Block, Barrington Road, Worthing BN12 4XH
Annual Report and Accounts 2015-16 HM Revenue and Customs Annual Report and Accounts 2015-16 (For the year ended 31 March 2016) Accounts presented to the House of Commons pursuant to Section 6(4) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 and Section 2 of the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1921 Annual Report presented to the House of Commons by Command of Her Majesty Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 14 July 2016 HC 338 This is part of a series of departmental publications which, along with the Main Supply Estimates 2016-17, the document Public Expenditure: Statistical Analyses 2016 present the Government’s outturn for 2015-16 and planned expenditure fo r 2016 -17. © Crown copyright 2016 This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3 or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or email: [email protected]. Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. This publication is available at www.gov.uk/government/publications Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at HMRC Finance, Room C4, South Block, Barrington Road, Worthing BN12 4XH Print ISBN 9781474135153 Web ISBN 9781474135160 ID 27061601 07/16 Printed on paper containing 75% recycled fibre content minimum Printed in the UK by the Williams Lea -
Bild Nur in Printausgabe Verfügbar
Internationale Presse Bild nur in Printausgabe verfügbar Internationale Presse Unschlagbar in Selbstzerfleischung Vor der Brexit-Abstimmung nimmt sich die britische Politik selbst auseinander Henning Hoff | Wenn sich Großbritan- nig Understatement später als „kei- niens Boulevard- und seriöseren Zei- ne gute Woche“ bezeichnete. Diese tungen in ihren empörten Bra chial- „Enthüllung“ nimmt sich, bei Lichte Schlagzeilen einig sind, heißt das für betrachtet, allerdings eher banal aus den Gegenstand der Berichterstat- und kann nur diejenigen überrascht tung meist nichts Gutes: so auch am haben, die in den zehn Jahren, in de- 8. April, als die ganze Fleet Street nen Cameron an der Spitze der Kon- Premierminister David Cameron ins servativen Partei steht, noch nicht Visier nahm. „Die geheimen 30 000 mitbekommen haben, dass der briti- Pfund des Premiers, versteckt in der sche Premier aus einer einigermaßen Steueroase“, kreischte der linke Daily wohlhabenden Familie stammt. Mirror; „Premier: Ja, ich HABE von Camerons 2010 verstorbener Vater Steueroase profitiert“, druckte die Ian, ein Börsenmakler, war seit den rechte Daily Mail in größten Lettern. achtziger Jahren einer von fünf Di- „Cameron gibt endlich zu: Ja, ich habe rektoren des in Panama gegründeten aus Offshore-Fonds meinen Nutzen und auf den Bahamas registrierten gezogen“, hieß es beim linkslibera- Investmentfonds Blairmore Holdings. len Guardian , „Ich HATTE Offsho- An diesem Fonds hielten auch Came- re-Geld“, beim konservativen Daily ron und seine Frau Samatha Antei- Telegraph. Nur das auflagenstärkste le, die sie allerdings für etwas mehr Blatt, die Sun aus dem Hause Rupert als 30 000 Pfund verkauften, bevor Murdoch, fand eine angeblich Pro- Cameron in Nummer 10 Downing minente involvierende Sexgeschich- Street einzog. -
Labour Policymaking
Prem Sikka, Michele Christensen, John Christensen, Christine Cooper, Tom Hadden, Deborah Hargreaves, Colin Haslam, Paddy Ireland, Glenn Morgan, Martin Parker, Gordon Pearson, Sol Picciotto, Jeroen Veldman, Hugh Willmott REFORMING HMRC: MAKING IT FIT FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FIRST STAGE REPORT Prem Sikka, Michele Christensen John Christensen Christine Cooper Tom Hadden Deborah Hargreaves Colin Haslam, Paddy Ireland Glenn Morgan Martin Parker Gordon Pearson Sol Picciotto Jeroen Veldman Hugh Willmott This review was commissioned by the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell MP, and conducted independently by Professor Prem Sikka and others. The contents of this document form a submission to Labour’s policy making process; they do not constitute Labour Party policy nor should the inclusion of conclusions and recommendations be taken to signify Labour Party endorsement for them. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) performs a vital task in collecting taxes, enforcing lax laws and delivering services to taxpayers. Against a background of reductions in resources, it has experienced considerable difficulties in meeting the service expectation of taxpayers and challenging organised tax avoidance. This policy paper investigates the difficulties and makes recommendations to strengthen HMRC and its public accountability. The reforms include the following: 1. The formation of a Supervisory Board, consisting of stakeholders, to watch over HMRC Board to give it direction and enhance its public accountability. The Board shall act as a bulwark against corporate capture and inertia and be accountable to parliamentary committees. 2. The Supervisory Board should support and protect tax whistleblowers. 3. Additional investment in HMRC resources and staffing. 4. HMRC needs local knowledge and must respond to citizens’ concerns. -
Announcement
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Tax, Lies and Videotape Britain’S Shadow Tax System Revealed
1 TAX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE BRITAIN’S SHADOW TAX SYSTEM REVEALED A Private Eye Special Report by RICHARD BROOKS THE coalition’s frequent claim to be clamping leading accountants, Private Eye and were in any case too far-ranging; that in cases down on corporate tax avoidance is a sham, an Panorama’s investigation has discovered that like Vodafone, it was other countries’ tax, undercover investigation by Private Eye and the this repeated assurance was entirely misleading. not the UK’s, that was being avoided so why BBC’s Panorama reveals. The coalition government has in fact created the should a British chancellor care? Osborne and The Treasury, HM Revenue & Customs and opportunity for the biggest companies to slash Gauke were easily persuaded and readily Britain’s biggest accountancy fi rms all connive billions of pounds from their UK tax bills. It approved plans from the business-dominated to allow the biggest companies and richest knew it was doing so; but it pretended otherwise committees under which profi ts supposedly individuals to deny the UK exchequer billions, to parliament and to the British public. made outside the UK could be diverted to British multinationals’ tax haven companies while undermining the global fi ght against tax Controlled explosion dodging too. with minimal tax charges. The main tax Our investigation reveals that Britain The tax avoidance con is being played out break would be a special rule for offshore through laws introduced in 1984 by the then “fi nance companies” like Vodafone’s in operates a shadow tax system thanks to chancellor Nigel Lawson, soon after the Luxembourg that would be taxed at somewhere a clique of ministers, offi cials, select relaxation of exchange controls eased the fl ow between nothing and one quarter of the main multinationals and accountancy fi rms – the of money across borders, to ensure that if corporation tax rate – which from 2015 means largest of whom, PwC, appeared to British multinationals simply moved profi ts a maximum of 5 percent – on interest earned misrepresent its own activities to parliament.