This is from a press release issued by HM Revenue & Customs today, no doubt to puff Lin Homer’s damehood: This is from a press release
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2015: Private Debt and the UK Housing Market
The following piece comes from the The EREP network Review of the UK Economy in 2015. It is by Jo Michell who is a senior lecturer
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Why has Lin Homer become Dame Lin?
Lin Homer is the chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs. It was announced that she is to become Dame Lin Homer in the New Years
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So where were HMRC when the Italians were nailing Apple on tax?
As the BBC have reported: Apple’s Italian subsidiary has agreed to pay €318m (£235m; $348m) following an investigation into tax fraud allegations, Italy’s tax office
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2015 Newsmaker: Murphy’s law
The Guardian has just published this: I think they were trying to establish a mad professor theme with that choice of photo. As for the
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2015: A year in taxation
I have already mentioned the EREP publication ‘The Cracks Begin to Show: A Review of the UK Economy in 2015’ this morning. This is my
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The Cracks Begin to Show: the UK Economy in 2015
The EREP network — Economists for Rational Economic Policies (of which I am a member) — has published its Review of the UK Economy in
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Financial crises, flooding and foreigners
In 2008 the banking sector collapsed. Gordon Brown blamed tax havens. Only later was it quietly admitted that the crisis began in US and UK
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I believe in the politics of hope
Janan Ganesh has an article in the FT this morning in which he argues: The politics of hope has a spurious respectability but reeks of
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