On 3 April Baroness Williams of Trafford, who is a Home Office minister, claimed in the House of Lords that: The UK is directly responsible
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Tax havens destroy the economy
I wrote this blog for Verso to promote my book Dirty Secrets: How tax havens destroy the economy, which they publish. It’s available here. The
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HMRC v OLAF
The economics of Scottish taxation
I have already written about what I think the foundations of Scottish taxation should be. This thinking is based on a report I have submitted
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The Foundations of Scottish Taxation
I have been asked to give evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Finance and Constitution Committee on the subject of the Foundations of Scottish Taxation and
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As HMRC works to Make Tax Digital their message to some taxpayers is ‘please send in paper tax returns’
As the FT reports this morning Software glitches are putting thousands of people at risk of paying hundreds of pounds too much tax next year,
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Scotland really does need its own VAT and tax data if GERS is to be meaningful
The FT featured an article on Thursday that I thought relevant to my recent debate on the quality of Scottish economic data. The Telegraph then
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The £2 billion (and rising) cost of HMRC’s failure to police our ports
Comments from me were included in a report on HMRC’s failure to collect customs duties owing at UK ports on Radio 4 on Wednesday night.
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