Between 2009 and 2012 the Bank of England ran a £375 billion quantitative easing programme. It is now running another £60 billion programme for government
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I have a new article under the above title published by BNA Bloomberg. The aim of what I call an Alternative Minimum Corporation Tax is
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Foreign owned property, bought largely for speculative purposes, is hollowing out life in London. Sadiq Khan is right to be worried about the consequences and
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Markets are speculating that Deutsche Bank is insolvent. I cannot say but if it is then the risk is phenomenal. We have yet to get
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I felt this one tweet very precisely summarised the 21st century economic problem, which has impact far beyond Japan: So the answer is, increase wages
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Some of the dsebate at the Revenue Bar Association last night focussed on the difficulty of defining tax avoidance. I offered a definition in the
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I took part in the first ever Revenue Bar Association debate last evening. The Revenue Bar is, of course, the organisation for tax barristers. The
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This picture is in the Guardian overnight: I reproduce it to make the point that the same demand should be on the political agenda here
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Back in 2007 I forecast that if Jersey continued with its tax haven policies it would have a black hole in its finances of £119
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