One of the most difficult questions in politics right now is why Labour will not increase taxes on the wealthy. They could, and they should.
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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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As the Guardian has noted this morning: Predictions that adding VAT to private school fees would set off a wave of parents moving children to
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It’s long been a US Republican dream to get rid of the IRS – the US federal tax authority. Now the goal is within their
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Nothing Trump is saying, doing or enacting makes any sense – so is his real goal to Make America Dysfunctional Again – or MADA? There
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I have questioned the merits of Adam Smith’s four supposed principles of taxation in the past, but would agree with one of them. That one
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 is published in its final, complete form, this morning.  It seeks to answer the question that every journalist loves to
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The National newspaper in Scotland has been running what I think to be a very important series on the threats posed by freeports during the
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I write this as part of the background data for the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 that I am now working on and thought it worth
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