David Cay Johnston has a fascinating article on Tax Analysts, now released from behind a firewall. As he notes: The fast-increasing use of tax incentives
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The new VAT gap suggests UK GDP may be understated by up to 10% and tax evasion has to exceed £70 billion
I’ve just realised HMRC issued a new VAT gap estimate late last week. This is it: To put the data in context the time series
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This morning’s ‘I don’t believe it’ moment
There are occasions when the sheer crass stupidity of ministers driven by ‘free market’ dogma brings out the Victor Meldrew in me. This was one,
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Update on the Gagging Bill
I got the following press release this morning and thought it useful enough to share in full: The Christian political think-tank Ekklesia has endorsed a
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The domicile rule has outstayed its welcome. It’s time for it to go
The issue of domicile he re-surfaced in the comments on this blog. I wrote the blog reproduced below in March 2007, but nothing of real substance
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Thank heavens – ideology is back in politics
This is in an FT email this morning: Now the article is by Janan Ganesh, for whom I have little time, so I’m not suggesting
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