I was fascinated by this comment in The Guardian, published this morning: Warnings by landlords that taxes on buy-to-let would cripple the property market, driving down supply
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I still do not have the video of the above debate, which took place a couple of weeks ago at the OECD. However, the International
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I was called yesterday morning by Talk Radio and asked if I would take part in a discussion on whether or not the IFS were
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The UK is a low tax nation. I point this out because the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said that if we want to balance
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The fact that accountancy firm Grant Thornton is to part company with its CEO,  Sacha Romanovitch, has made headline news. No doubt that is in
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I am in very many ways surprised that the EU is still negotiating Brexit. Last December the only thing that has ever been agreed during
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I was asked to give a talk to members of the Public Accounts Committees of about ten countries yesterday based on a paper I wrote
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It’s hard to be an optimist this morning. The EU says the Brexit problem lies with the UK, as if that is news. We know there
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It’s never the crisis you expect that gets you, precisely because they are anticipatable. It’s the unexpected that always really impacts. And there may be
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