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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Prof Charles Adams of Durham University played with the data I used yesterday to show the relationship between tax and GDP and recast the data
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A number of recent discussions, including the comments made by Alex Cobham to the Scottish parliament on the psychology of tax payment and discussion of potential
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I apologise to all those who think I have suddenly become obsessed with Scotland, but there is another story on the political economy of that
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I spoke at a meeting of the APPG for Inclusive Growth in the House of Parliament on Tuesday evening. I was interviewed beforehand, and just
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