From this month’s Bookseller: The only slight problem is that it’s delayed until August or thereabouts, but that’s just a detail.

I shouldn’t be depressed by debate on tax, but I almost invariably am whenever a politician or an economist discusses the issue. Since most economists view the world from a right wing, neoliberal perspective they really have nothing very useful to say on tax because their model of the economy sees no useful purpose for
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There’s welcome news this morning from the FT that the impact of the new 7% stamp duty rate on house sales at more than £2 million has really damped the market at the top end (mainly in London, inevitably). Apparently 50% of all houses put on the market are now being withdrawn unsold after six
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Having blogged about the fact that I am about to start work writing ‘The Joy of Tax‘ it was good to note this in the FT this morning: The favourites to win next month’s general election in Sweden are planning to reverse course on the current government’s economic reforms by limiting private equity involvement in the public
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For a number of years I said I was working on a book called The Joy of Tax. However the immediacy of campaigning and the specific demands of particular and quite focussed projects got in the way. And I also need to write The Courageous State first. However, yesterday I signed a contract to write a
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I didn’t intend to have a twitter rant aimed at those who say they can’t see how the UK tax consensus has been broken tonight, but I did. This is it, in reverse order: Update: The 8.57 post was meant to say neoliberal politicians second.

George Monbiot has an excellent article on tax in the Guardian this morning. At its core is an argument for land value taxation, which he explains has long had powerful support. As he puts it: In 1909 a dangerous subversive explained the issue thus. “Roads are made, streets are made, services are improved, electric light turns night into day, water
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From this morning’s Guardian: It was disappointing to note the Guardian publishing an article in G2 that was little more than a flippant gloss on the opinion of a tax avoider. There is, as the G2 cover suggested, and as I will explain in my forthcoming book, The Joy of Tax, (which title seems to
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The run up to the budget is always frenetic. And now it’s been and gone and we know how debased the Tory’s thinking is. In that case it’s time to set to work on writing the alternative. I discussed the need for that alternative in the Guardian on Friday, but if you want a job
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