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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This week’s podcast was recorded as the final video in a series of videos that I made for the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency. I
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The frequent commentator on this blog who uses the name Schofield suggested this morning, in response to today’s video, that: Not being willing to pay
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Taxing the wealthy sounds easy. But what happens when we don’t actually know what they own or what it’s worth? In this fifth video in
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The tax gap remains in the news this week. Today, the Public Accounts Committee has published a new report on the issue in which they
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HM Revenue & Customs published their latest tax gap estimates yesterday. These cover the tax year 2023/24. The summary data looks like this and presents
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The National Audit Office (NAO) issued a report yesterday that suggested: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) defines wealthy individuals as those earning more than £200,000
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The exponents of wealth taxes claim that they’re a great way of raising additional tax revenue. They forget just how hard it is for anyone
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Both the FT and the Guardian note criticisms of HM Revenue & Customs raised by the National Audit Office this morning. As the NAO says:
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