Jolyon Maugham wrote of one if his own blogs a couple of days ago: Like many others (I presume) I decided to ignore that blog
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Printing houses
This letter was in the Guardian today: Instead of the eye-wateringly cruel cuts in public services inherent in the chancellor’s obsession with rapid deficit reduction,
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Here be thieves and fraudsters
What Osborne forgot to say: austerity does not guarantee the government balances its books
The way George Osborne tells the austerity story you’d think that it followed automatically that if he imposes austerity by cutting government spending it will
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Osborne’s class warfare drives his fixation with austerity
The whole of George Osborne’s economic policy is based upon his determination to remove the government deficit. Because he also hates all forms of taxation
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HMRC claim the VAT gap is down but how do they know when most VAT inspections have ended?
Amongst the many statistical releases made yesterday by HMRC was a new estimate of the VAT gap for the UK, this being the first estimate
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Northern Ireland’s tax problem
Northern Ireland wants to take control of its Corporation tax rate but there is a problem. Under EU law (which would also apply to Scotland
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Osborne is planning to destroy society as we know it. What are we going to do about it?
I have had time overnight to read what was impossible for me to do yesterday due to broadcast and interview commitments and sheer fatigue, which
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The diverted profits tax – is it the start of unitary taxation?
A diverted profits tax has been announced today, to which I have already referred. I gather we will learn no more about it until next
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