As the Guardian reports this morning: All drinks containers in England, whether plastic, glass or metal, will be covered by a deposit return scheme, the
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There has been some welcome discussion of wealth taxation of late. Given the scale of wealth inequality in society this is overdue. But in this
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Today is the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther supposedly posting his 95 Theses on the door of Wittenberg’s Castle Church. What precisely happened that day
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Bailiwick Express in Jersey has an article today on the use of a States of Jersey credit card by Senator Philip Ozouf, the former finance
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Two weeks today I’m at Edinburgh: There are more details and ticket booking arrangements here.

I have already written about the tax conference I attended in Brussels over the last couple of days and discussed one of the hot topics
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The Tories made no promises on tax increases yesterday, VAT excepted. This was not by choice. This was by necessity. The reality is that as
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Interviewed by Robert Peston this morning Theresa May said  the Conservatives have no plans to increase taxes, and claimed Labour had. However, when asked to reiterate
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Following discussion on tax and GDP over the last day or so (see here and here) Prof Charles Adams of Durham University has done some
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