Rachel Reeves will not fix Britain today. So I’ve published my Alternative Budget for 2025 — a complete plan to end austerity, rebuild public services,
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Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26. I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and
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I was asked over the weekend if I would create a glossary entry on hot money, and given that this seemed both appropriate and not
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Arthur Laffer’s “curve” is one of the most destructive ideas in modern economics. Sketched on a napkin in the 1970s, it claimed that cutting tax
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This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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The National Audit Office issued a report yesterday on efforts being made by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to tackle benefit fraud, and
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I was pleased to note this email from the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) yesterday: I recently highlighted my own critical role in
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Something called country-by-country reporting, which I created, changed the tax world forever. It forced multinationals to reveal how much profit they were shifting into tax
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The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), the International Budget Partnership (IBP) and the University of Sheffield have launched a major new training programme on
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