I have for the past five years been funded in three fundamental ways. The first has been by a core grant from the Joseph Rowntree
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Why, oh why, aren’t HMRC doing what is really needed when it comes to data collection?
The government has issued a flood of new tax consultations, almost as if they wish to overwhelm the market and make sure only very limited
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The government may be walking away from its Green Deal. The Green New Deal marches on
The Green New Deal Group, of which I am a member, was formed in 2007 and began publishing its solutions to the world’s economic crisis
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HMRC and I are singing from a hymn sheet, if only for the first verse
HMRC published a new consultation document on increasing large business tax compliance yesterday. I welcome it. Tax avoidance or ‘aggressive tax planning’ Tax avoidance or
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Will it be ‘reds under beds’ soon at the Guardian?
The Guardian’s lack of objectivity on the fact that a left of centre candidate has stood for leadership of the Labour party (I use the
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Let’s hope there’s some tax in it
I couldn’t help but note these adjacent comments in an FT email this morning: Reaching for the Starbucks Global coffee chain Starbucks reported one of
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Grass roots politicians are refusing to prop up the remains of a dying political era
Anne Perkins wrote in the Guardian yesterday: Think what kind of country you want for you and your children and, even more importantly, think how
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A rare politician
I mentioned earlier this morning that I had been asked to make comment after a speech Jeremy Corbyn gave on the economy this morning. This
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The National Audit Office, the tax gap, HMRC and ‘other estimates’
The National Audit Office issued its report on the annual report of HM Revenue & Customs on Friday. It’s a good job it did as
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