I missed this in the Financial Times from 30 July: The number of “non-doms” [in the UK] dropped by less than 1 per cent immediately
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Debate Ammunition: The small company corporation tax gap
THE RICHARD J MURPHY YOUTUBE CHANNEL DEBATE AMMUNITION THE SMALL COMPANY TAX GAP Funding the Future | July 2026 Today’s Topic The small company corporation
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How to find £17 billion
Britain is constantly told there isn’t enough money. We’re told there isn’t enough to build council housing. Not enough to improve transport. Not enough to
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A passport tax would solve the problem of tax refugees
The Guardian posted this comment yesterday: Wealthy UK nationals fleeing war in the Gulf are seeking sanctuary in countries such as Ireland and France to avoid hefty
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The alternative budget we need: the video
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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The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 10: tax reforms
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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Hot money
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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Laffer’s curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality
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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Economic questions: the Thomas Piketty question
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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