About a year ago Dan Mitchell of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity got very heated about trying to arrange a debate with me. I
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STEP: getting it all wrong on as 95.5% of non-doms plan to stay in the UK
I have read with interest the report from the Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners on the abolition of the domicile rule. I should state
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Poor and happy?
Dani Rodrik has a blog on this theme. He reproduces this graph based on an analysis of Gallup data by a person called Angus Deaton:
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HMRC embraces tax compliance
Accountancy Age report that: Dave Hartnett, acting chairman of HM Revenue & Customs, has approached every FTSE 100 finance director, offering a lighter scrutiny of
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Brendan Barber on the Tax Gap
Brendan Barber, TUC general secretary has written about the Tax Gap on his Guardian blog. As he notes: While many worry about the growth of
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Why is it accountants can only protest about HMRC?
I note that the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland has been yelling like mad about there being less than 90 days consultation period on
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Living in a sandwich
Campaigning for tax justice is a curious experience. Those on the Right claim I am anti-business, anti-wealth or just plain envious (as was the main
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