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Today (Jan 31) is the deadline for getting your tax form into the Inland Revenue, if you are one of the people who have to fill in a tax form. Oxfam Cymru are using this date as a timely reminder of just what a giant hole in the economy is caused by some wealthy people who move heaven and earth to illegally evade as much tax as they possibly can. The charity's latest calculations reckon that tax evasion is depriving the UK economy...

We now have an opportunity in Wales to make a massive difference; an opportunity that won't come along again for a long time. A rather dry consultation paper from the Welsh Government about making sustainable development its "central organising principle" could show the way for how countries around the world can lift people out of poverty while protecting the environment. Governments always bang on about sustainable...

Imagine the scene…the Co-operative food store in Somerton, Newport, a Skype connection to Uganda, a Fair Trade coffee farmer and John Griffiths, Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development…what could possibly be happening?! Well, with only a week before the Welsh Government's representative packs his bags to attend the Rio+20 Summit in Brazil, Oxfam Cymru together with Fair Trade Wales and the Co-operative, wanted to...