The Guardian notes this morning that: The International Monetary Fund has urged the UK to ease back on austerity should the economy slow further, as
Read the full article…

Ed Troup is the new boss of HMRC, it has been announced. I wrote this of him in 2013: What worries me is when those [like
Read the full article…

Ivan Horrocks of the Open University first drew my attention to the government’s plans to restrict ‘lobbying’ by UK academics in receipt of UK government
Read the full article…

The Public Accounts Committee have just published this statement of findings following their hearing with Google: It is not possible to judge whether a £130
Read the full article…

Martin Wolf has said in the Financial Times this morning that:  The austerity obsession, even when borrowing costs are so low, is lunatic  I think he
Read the full article…

It is reported today that Tony Blair does not understand the Corbyn and Sanders phenomenon. Of course he does not, for three reasons. First, Blair
Read the full article…

The OECD announced yesterday that its tax deliberations will be open to all countries that embrace the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project.  I welcome
Read the full article…

I am travelling to Orlando today. No, I have not had a sudden mid-life urge to do Disney: I am speaking on The Joy of
Read the full article…

This comment has just been published by the National Audit Office: Government lacks a clear understanding of the scale of the fraud problem and departments
Read the full article…