Benefit errors cost £1 million a day. Tax avoidance and evasion cost £260 million a day
The Daily telegraph is very vexed today that there are £1 million of benefit payment errors a day in the UK. To put this in
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Venn diagrams for our times: the assumptions of neoclassical economics
Is the International Tax System Fit for Purpose, Especially for Developing Countries?
This blog trails a paper that I think should be of real interest. With the above title, it is by Prof Sol Picciotto, with whom
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Venn diagrams for our times: the bedroom tax
My thoughts on financial transaction taxes from the Law Society debate last night
As I have mentioned, I spoke on financial transaction taxes at the Law Society last night. These were my speaking notes: Start in the blue
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Reports of the death of the financial transaction tax have been greatly exaggerated
I took part in a debate on financial transaction taxes last night at the Law Society, and good event it was too. One of my
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Venn diagrams for our times: Michael Gove
Headlines you never expected to read: estate agents beg for cap on house price increases
There are some headlines you just never expect to see. So this in the Guardian this morning did, I admit, take me by surprise: What’s
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