2015 January 23

The Joy of Tax in The Bookseller

Posted on January 23 2015

From this month’s Bookseller: The only slight problem is that it’s delayed until August or thereabouts, but that’s just a detail.

The poorest were not hit hardest by tax and benefit changes by chance: it was by design

Posted on January 23 2015

I quote at length from the Guardian on a new report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies out today: Britain’s poorest families have suffered the most
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All political parties must commit to open government

Posted on January 23 2015

The following letter is being sent to leaders of all the UK’s political parties and many other politicians. It was organised by the Open Government
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In the Guardian this morning

Posted on January 23 2015

This letter is in the Guardian this morning: Larry Elliott is right to be sceptical about whether the trillion-euro dose of QE will solve Europe’s
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The wrong type of QE

Posted on January 23 2015

The European Central Bank has launched its QE programme, which is planned to print €1.1 trillion (that’s €1,100,000,000,000) of money in the Eurozone over the
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