I spoke on a panel at the British Chambers of Commerce conference yesterday. Mark Littlewood of the IEA, Jeremy Warner of the Telegraph and Polly
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Yanis Varoufakis backing People’s Quantitative Easing as the basis of a new prosperity for the UK
Yanis Varoufakis is, I know, a controversial figure. Anyone who changes things is, almost by definition. This week the Conservatives have mocked Labour for talking
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A 40p top rate of tax is on its way on 16 March
According to the Daily Mail this morning: George Osborne should slash tax for top earners further still, say senior Tories after figures showed a cut
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Why public country-by-country reporting for large multinationals is a must
A range of NGOs and others campaigning for public country-by-country reporting have come together to publish this report: If you want answers this report is where to
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HMRC should stop lying on behalf of tax cheats
I am grateful to Jolyon Maugham for noticing an issue in one of the many publications put out by HMRC this week; the plethora presumably
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Being self-employed may well be a sign of desperation, not choice
I drew attention to some new HMRC statistical data yesterday: now it is time to look at some more, just published, this time relating to
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How did it come to Trump?
Unless something very strange happens Donald Trump will win the Republican candidacy to run for President of the USA. It is reasonable to ask how
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By how much were you better off in 2013 than 1999?
The data I have already referred to today on income by centile for the period 1999 to 2013 – 14 from HM Revenue & Customs gives
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The story of inequality from 1999 to 2014
The government has published new data this morning on the earnings and tax paid by each centile of the UK population. For these purposes a
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