I have woken early ahead of a long day of meetings that will allow little time for anything else, let alone blogging. A little early
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The Big 4 accountants are not culturally neutral
I am pleased to share this guest post: Professional Chameleons Or Independent Public Auditors And Regulators? — A Case Study of KPMG and its Regulatory
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Time for an Office for Tax Responsibility?
My old sparring partner, Prof Judith Freedman of the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation, has an article in the FT this morning on the need for
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The macroeconomic policy we need now
I am giving a talk this lunchtime building on ideas in The Joy of Tax. These are my speaking notes in diagrammatic form (click on
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It’s time to give the Bank of England something useful to do
Working for the Bank of England must be tough right now. What is the point must be the question any thinking employee must ask each
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Some things are beyond your own control
I post this at my own expense. Seen on the Guardian just now: Some things are beyond your own control. It is also cheaper elsewhere.
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Why hasn’t a single supporter of tax justice been asked to advise the government on tax policy?
From an article by Dame Margaret Hodge in the Guardian this morning: The Tax Professionals Forum that advises David Gauke on tax policy is filled
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There are three words the world needs to know right now: People’s Quantitative Easing
Last summer the likes of Chris Giles on the FT were keen to point out that the policy of People’s Quantitative Easing that Jeremy Corbyn had
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The state, in whom we should trust even when times aren’t tough
We are facing financial market crashes. These are, of course, not the same as real financial crises but the two have a habit of running
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