My friend and colleague Prof Len Seabrooke reviewed my blog on Facebook and its planned new currency this morning and sent me this: You can
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Beating the offshore tax gap has happened because we thought outside the Treasury box
The FT has reported that: People hiding money overseas are increasingly being caught by the UK tax authority, which has sharply increased revenue from undeclared
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The Tory party has lost every ounce of sense it ever had
No, I am not talking about the Tory leadership election. Or Brexit. I know both might make my case but what I am instead referring
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Why I stand by my tax gap estimate – including on the tax rate at which evasion takes place
I feel somewhat reluctant to return to the issue of my tax gap estimate, but since it is causing further debate I will. Let’s be
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Facebook, Libra and the threat it poses to government as we know it
I have been desisting from commenting on Facebook’s proposed new currency, which they call Libra. There has been good reason. I wanted to know more;
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Boris Johnson is making increasing inequality the priority for all he does
I have already referred to my book The Joy of Tax once this morning. Let me do so again. In it I described tax as
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The government’s new policy on the climate crisis is ‘let us burn’
The Guardian features an article this morning that tells us a great deal about the priorities of the UK government when it comes to the
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On trolling
I liked this from Gary Kasparov, from Twitter: Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) 13/12/2016, 19:08 The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an
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Is Westminster trying to undermine Holyrood?
Ken Mathiason is a fairly regular commentator on this blog. He is Scottish and we share an interest in all things to do with accountancy,
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