I have already received several comments challenging my view that the world of tax avoidance has been changed for good by the publication of new
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Believing that taxation is theft is now, officially, an extreme view
The opinion that taxation is theft is now officially and even legally considered to be an extreme view. I can say this based on the
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The argument that tax avoidance is legal is now dead and gone, for good. The world of tax abuse changed today, for the better.
The new Guidance on the new General Anti-Abuse Rule (GAAR) in UK taxation has been published today. I sat on the committee drafting this guidance,
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Pension deficits are an issue but the real problem is the deficit of thinking about what pensions funds do
As the FT notes this morning: UK companies reporting annual results for the year to March are expected to report an increase of more than
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No longer one nation?
The evidence that there are at least two nations, and not one, in the UK is very clear. As Larry Elliott put it this morning: [A] CRESC study
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