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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Freeports are a threat to free markets and to the wellbeing of the populations of all countries in which they exist
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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UK taxes paid by type 2022-23
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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Reforming the administration of corporation tax in the UK might raise at least £6 billion of tax a year
I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will together make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this note, I suggest that
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Myths about taxing wealth and high earners
I got to the point yesterday in my work on wealth taxes where I could feel fairly confident that I had identified all the changes
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The case for investment in HMRC is overwhelming
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales published an article this week in which they noted: Since 10 July 2023, an HMRC taskforce
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We need to raise a lot more in tax from the wealthy but that does not convince me that we need a wealth tax
I am aware that my old friend, Howard Reed, has produced the data for the TUC’s proposed new wealth tax. As the TUC say: The
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Land value taxation is a non-starter when it comes to serious tax reform
A commentator going by the name of Joe Polito has posted on the blog this morning suggesting that a desirable tax reform would be to
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We need tax reform. What we do not need is tax reform to perpetuate the status quo.
The FT has an editorial this morning that it says signals the start of a series to be published by it on tax reform. Since
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