The Telegraph reported this morning that the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) has told Rachel Reeves that raising income tax would be
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What if the UK admitted it uses MMT and turned that into its superpower?
What if the UK government admitted it already uses modern monetary theory? Would markets panic — or would we finally have the power to rebuild
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Inequality is not falling
The background The claim that inequality is falling is a claim that is often trotted out by right-wing commentators, backed by selective income statistics. It
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The Telegraph is right: Reeves should not increase taxes on lower and average income earners
The Telegraph can hardly contain its excitement about the forthcoming Tory conference as this week progresses, and as a result, it is doing all it
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Tax changes everything
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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Should we tax the rich
I was sent this video to review by its creator this week. I know who he is. I offered comments to him, but also asked
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Country-by-country reporting is working
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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Farage is for the rich
This is the third in a series of posts on the politics of Nigel Farage and Reform, all of which treat the two as effectively
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How country-by-country reporting exposed tax havens
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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