Robin McAlpine, who directs an organisation called Common Weal in Scotland, wrote a great blog for them yesterday under the above title. What he quite effectively
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Happy new tax year
I mean it. It’s 6 April. It’s the start of a new tax year. And tax is a good thing. So why not say ‘Happy
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The UK’s tax simplification now means submitting six tax returns a year, not one
Earlier this year I submitted evidence to the House of Lords on HMRC’s Making Tax Digital programme, which they claim simplifies tax for the self
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The Tax Justice Network is recruiting a Head of Operations
The Tax Justice Network is recruiting a Head of Operations and I think this may be a job someone reading this blog might be interested
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On Scottish independence
My contribution to the Politics Home podcast a week ago, when I discussed the above theme, has been turned into a discreet entity. This is
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Fantasies really do end: the only questions are how and when
I asked yesterday why it seemed that people weren’t listening at present. As is true of much of what I write here, the question was
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Is anyone listening?
There is a certain surrealness about blogging at present. There’s this slight, but persistent and nagging feeling that no one is listening. i am not
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The Panama Papers: One year on
I am speaking at this event: To see the full programme, please click here. To register for the event, please click here. GUE/NGL MEPs are
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Take the tax haven out of Gibraltar and what have you got?
There are two telling quotes in an article in the Guardian on Gibraltar this morning. One is this: “On the gaming side, we’ve got all
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