I’ve known Jolyon Maugham for a while. We worked together on tax policy before the 2015 general election. The debate on domicile that was one
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Ignore what the Gini coefficient says: real inequality is growing and people are suffering as a result
The right-wing love to say inequality does not matter. They also love to say that the Gini coefficient that measures inequality is improving. They trumpet
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Ireland’s playing games in the last chance saloon of tax justice
The collective denial of tax abusers is one of the things that characterises their behaviour. It does not really matter which of the three parties
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Jersey: still occupied
The Jersey Evening Post reported yesterday that: Last month External Relations Minister Ian Gorst announced that Jersey was following the UK by introducing a ‘settled-status’
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The UK’s VAT gap – my evidence to the Treasury Committee
I gave evidence to the EU parliament last week on the VAT tax gap. This morning our parliament has published evidence I submitted to them
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Accountancy, corruption, ethics and offshore
I spent a fascinating afternoon yesterday with Prof Dan Ostas of the University of Oklahoma. We weren’t near a prairie. Instead we sat by the
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Why did business take so long to work out Brexit?
A couple of people have, of late, asked why it is that it has taken so long for business to react to the Brexit fiasco.
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Stock markets look ever more like Ponzi schemes
The FT has reported this morning that: Debt at UK listed companies has soared to hit a record high of £390bn as companies have scrambled
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No wonder Boris Johnson wants to ‘f**k business’: he and his colleagues have already ‘f**ked the government’
I read Isabel Hardman’s piece on Theresa May’s failure to address social care in The Observer yesterday. It was damning, especially coming from a member
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