I note this in the Irish Times this afternoon: Disputes between the big accountancy companies and and tax authorities are common enough. But the decision
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Music for the economy of 2015: Livin’ in the Wasteland of the Free
This is an absolute gem from Iris Dement I was wholly unaware of before it was recommended by Robin Stafford: The lyrics are here. This
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The new era of tax simplification will mean four tax returns a year – and no doubt big penalties for not doing complying
Most people who have to do them find doing one tax return a year quite onerous. I know. I have helped many hundreds (maybe more)
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George Osborne: undermining democracy
Democracy is entirely dependent upon the existence of effective opposition to the government of the day. I am aware that some are discussing whether we
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How many more West Coast mainline fiascos are coming our way?
As the FT has noted: Although George Osborne, the chancellor, revealed plans to increase transport capital spending by 50 per cent to a total of
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The Department of Health on a shoestring
I have no idea whether someone in the Department of Health was trying to send out some subliminal messaging this morning or not but I
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Thank you to 21,000 people
Yesterday was the third best readership day in the history of this blog. There were more than 21,000 reads. This seemed to go down well:
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George is banking on a credit boom
I have explained the concept of sectoral balancing before. At the risk of repeating myself, what it suggests is that if the government is to run
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Yesterday proved that cuts are not inevitable
Tax credits were a cut too far. The Lords, the Sun, Labour and his own backbenchers had told George Osborne that was the case. He
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