The following is a blog post by my friend and occasional colleague, Geoff Tily of the TUC. He has given me permission to reproduce it
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The Bank of England is worried, and so it should be
As the Guardian reported yesterday: The Bank of England has told banks, credit card companies and car loan providers that they risk fresh action against
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Labour won’t keep its support based on this stupidity
Barry Gardiner, Labour’s shadow trade secretary, has written in the Guardian that: Most trade agreements arise from a desire to liberalise trade — making it
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There is no Laffer effect in UK corporation tax: in fact, the reverse is true
I get bored hearing of the supposed Laffer effect in UK corporation tax receipts. The argument is that because the UK corporation tax rate for
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Making Tax Digital – time for more simplification
I thought it worth sharing what follows on HMRC’s Making Tax Digital programme, on which I wrote quite a lot earlier this year. Making Tax
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Could Swansea survive with battery powered trains?
A regular reader of this blog wrote to me after I wrote about the abandonment of rail electrification to Swansea, saying: I am an electrical
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