The GERS debate, posted largely for the record:
Why we do not need corporation tax returns on public record
Labour has announced that it is making it policy that large companies should publish their tax returns alongside their accounts. I wrote about this issue
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The signs of economic downturn are increasing
I wrote yesterday morning that the post-Brexit economic honeymoon looked to be over. More signs emerged as yesterday evolved. As the FT noted: The availability
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Hasn’t Brexit destroyed the case for a third Heathrow runway?
The FT quite appropriately notes the big issues facing airlines after Brexit this morning. Put bluntly, no one knows whether UK based aircraft will be
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Tax havens exist in a kind of symbiosis
Inside Higher Education published a review of my new book, ‘Dirty Secret: how tax havens destro the economy’ this week. Its author, Scott McLemee, was
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People may have voted Brexit but the computers will say no
Concerns over HMRC’s IT ability should be growing rapidly. Recently it was revealed that some taxpayers are being asked to submit paper tax returns this year
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Scotland deserves better data
I have an article in the Scottish newspaper The Natiinal this morning, reflecting on the debate I took part in on BBC Radio Scotland yesterday.
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The Brexit downturn has arrived
One, disastrous, feature of the Reman campaign last year was the claim that if the UK voted leave then the country would require an immediate
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Debating Scottish economic data on BBC Scotland at 12.30 today
Less than a month ago I rather innocently, but I think entirely appropriately, wrote a blog about the lack of suitable data available to the
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