So much is going on I am having problems covering it all. So let me just point at this important Guardian story on the ongoing saga of the Channel Islands, vat
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There’s a piece in Accountancy Age, published on Friday, that says: Most advisors would support a general tax amnesty, which they would communicate with many
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Some have suggested I should not have commented on Ken Livingstone’s tax affairs over the last couple of weeks. I reflected carefully before doing so,
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In 2003 Colin Hines, Alan Simpson (then an MP) and I wrote a paper called ‘People’s Pensions’. In it we called for the issue of
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People are asking what land value taxation is, which given the attention it’s getting is a fair thing to do. One explanation is here. I
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I’m speaking on Wednesday evening at Labour Left’s Red Book Event in Ipswich. The event is at 7.30pm at the Unite Building, Grimwade St., Ipswich. David Hough and Dan Young are
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I’ve just realised that Eoin Clarke’s Left Labour blog The Green Benches is now number one political blog in the UK. It’s an astonishing achievement by Eoin
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The Tories are getting scared by the success of the left in using the internet for campaigning. Avaaz and 38 degrees seem pretty neutral to me;
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According to the FT, a Treasury spokesman said in response to Nick Clegg’s suggestion of a tycoon tax this weekend: “There are people out there
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