The Institute for Fiscal Studies is a reactionary force in economics
Saturday, November 23rd, 2019The Guardian has an editorial today in which they say: Economics dominates public debate while being seen as an abstract authority over which people have
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The Destination Based Cash Flow Tax is a terrible idea
Wednesday, March 20th, 2019Nick Shaxson has a post on the Tax Justice Network blog explaining why the destination based cash flow tax (DBCFT) is a terrible idea as
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The best way to reform corporation tax? That's the only basis that reflects where all their activities take place
Monday, March 18th, 2019A found an odd postscript to last week’s exchanges with Mike Devereux on corporation tax reform in the letter’s page of the FT where I
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Destination based corporation taxation is a fantasist’s unicorn
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019As I noted on Monday, I did, along with others, have a letter in the FT criticising the proposal that Martin Wolf made for the
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The end of the US destination based sales tax should also consign Mirrlees to the bin
Friday, July 28th, 2017The FT has reported this morning that Paul Ryan and his key colleagues in the US legislature have abandoned plans to introduce their corporate tax
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Do workers really pay a company's corporation tax bill?
Thursday, May 11th, 2017The IFS is showing its political colouring in reaction to Labour’s corporation tax plans, suggesting that: All taxes are paid by people and corporation tax is
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The US tax reform that threatens global chaos is an Institute for Fiscal Studies idea
Tuesday, February 14th, 2017The FT is unequivocal this morning. This is a headline: There is good reason for this concern. The proposal for US corporate tax reform is
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Is the UK is proposing to use the worst form of unitary taxation?
Thursday, November 24th, 2016Deep in the Autumn Statement documentation there is the following paragraph: 4.26 Bringing non-resident companies’ UK income into the corporation tax regime — The government
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How do we build public trust in HMRC?
Wednesday, November 9th, 2016The All Party Parliamentary Group on Responsible Tax is holding the following event: How do we build public trust in HMRC? 10am, Wednesday 16th November
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