The FT has a review by Giles Wilkes of Yanis Varoufakis’ new book, The Global Minotaur, this morning. It is headed: Giles Wilkes would be
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The UK’s councils are creaking under the pressure of cuts
This is from the FT this morning (yes, the FT): As they put it in their analysis of how bad things have got with local
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The first five years of tax collection by George Osborne: a progress report
The National Audit Office has published the following table of tax receipts over the five years of the Coalition government as part of its review of
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The July Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network
In the July 2015 Taxcast: in a special extended programme the Tax Justice Network look at the crisis in Greece and ask whatever happened to
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The Observer’s bankrupt when it comes to Labour
If you read the Observer today you would think that the Tories will rule in the UK until at least 2030. You would also believe
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Job part done
I sent the final chapter of the Joy of Tax to my publisher yesterday afternoon. After years of this being a title in need of a
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Outstanding contribution? The jury’s out
I have just been told I have been nominated for an award. This is the AccountingWEB Outstanding Contribution to Accounting Award, of which they say:
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HMRC’s running away from you
HMRC published it annual report yesterday. One of its claims, styled as an achievement, was that it now has only 170 offices compared with 539
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Osborne is tottering towards Green QE by the back door
I have good reason to support green quantitative easing since, as far as I can find, Colin Hines and I were the first people to use
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