The news was full of the story that 1 million people will pay £100 fines for submitting their tax returns late yesterday. Except they won’t.
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This weeks ‘scandal’ at the Student Loan Company, where a director who appears to be an employee has been paid through a personal service company
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Those wanting to know how HMRC approved the Student Loan Company deal should read this comment.

People are wondering how HMRC haven’t spotted the tax avoidance at the Student Loan Company. Let me explain why. It’s because HMRC deny there is such a
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I posted part 1 of this yesterday. Here’s part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=Lg9P4Kr2FjA Thanks to The Renegade Economist.

I’ll be spending much of today at the funeral of my oldest friend. I mean oldest because Jack Ray was 95 when he died, and
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The furore about the use of a personal service company to supply the services of the director of the Student Loan Company is appropriate. It
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This is a video just released of me talking a couple of weeks ago with Ross Ashcroft of the Renegade Economist about the state of
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I’m pleased to note that at least one major economist realises that public debt owned by the central bank of the government that issued that debt isn’t
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