Why doesn’t the UK government care about the fact that UK company law is not enforced? What is the point of having law that they
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On taxes on wealth in the Express today
This is in the Express today: The rest is here. They suggest people should brace themselves for what I have to say, which is really
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Starving the beast
As the New York Times has reported: The Internal Revenue Service will begin laying off roughly 6,000 employees on Thursday as part of the Trump
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It’s time to be serious about tax evasion
As the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has reported: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) estimates that tax evasion cost the UK £5.5 billion in
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Our tax system needs radical rethinking – not tinkering over costs
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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Charter cities would destroy the UK
Charter cities are a right-wing fantasy. They’re being prompted by the same people who gave us the economics of Liz Truss. And they’d be even
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The tax justice movement really does need to get its demands right
As the Guardian reported yesterday: The UK’s offshore financial centres must fall in behind plans to stop “dirty money” by publishing registers of corporate ownership,
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HMRC’s steady decline continues
As the FT noted a couple of days ago: The number of HM Revenue & Customs investigations into serious tax fraud and avoidance has fallen
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As managers, Labour are utterly incompetent.
The Guardian has reported: Rachel Reeves is considering raising capital gains tax as high as 39% in the budget, the Guardian can reveal, amid a
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