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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Time for an Alternative Minimum Corporation Tax?
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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Dealing with the problem of foreign owned property in the UK
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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Solving the Deutsche Bank crisis: a simple plan may be the only viable option
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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A summary of the 21st century economic problem in one tweet
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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Paying money into an ISA is not tax avoidance
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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Lawyers vote for tax avoidance and against penalising themselves for aiding and abetting it
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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Debt free college
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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Jersey’s black hole: still crazy after all these years
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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