What the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 has not done, and what might happen next
Friday, March 8th, 2024There are a few bits of the final Taxing Wealth Report 2024, in whichever format it is produced, that I have written but which have
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If today is all about Tory tax bribes it really will be a total waste of time
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023This is the morning when I know that almost anything I right now will be the equivalent of chip paper by lunchtime. Any speculation on
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Increasing the corporation tax rate for the UK's largest companies could raise £7 billion a year in tax
Monday, September 25th, 2023I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this latest note,
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Covid is an ongoing threat to the well being of millions in this country, but they're going to be sacrificed to the Tory back-benches
Tuesday, January 18th, 2022As the Guardian noted last night: No 10 is drawing up plans to phase out England’s remaining pandemic restrictions from as early as March as
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We need a vaccination programme for the world and it is possible for countries like the UK to fund it from new taxation. The question is, will we?
Saturday, June 12th, 2021I am expecting some modern monetary theory (MMT) directed criticism for having signed and posted the letter from a wide range of activists, practitioners and
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Why we need a corporation tax
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021I noted some reaction, especially on Twitter yesterday, in response to my comments on the need to support Biden’s minimum corporation tax plan. The claim
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Chris Whitty is asking that we accept Covid deaths like we do those from flu when flu deaths are largely linked to poverty
Friday, April 2nd, 2021I share this Tweet, which is an angry reaction from someone well known to me to Chris Whitty’s suggestion that we should just get on
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The FT offers an economically incompetent view of tax whilst suggesting tax increases for anyone but the best off
Monday, July 20th, 2020The FT is joining in the chorus that UK taxes must rise to pay for the coronavirus crisis. It has an editorial this morning that
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Financialisation and productivity: there are worrying trends in the data
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020This was posted today by the Productivity Insights Network which was established in January 2018 and is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. I
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