An email from the FT this morning included two adjacent headlines that suggest why an excess profits tax is needed. They were: One industry needs
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Half way through furlough and this week the mass redundancies begin
Amazingly, today we are half way through the government’s furlough scheme. This technically began on 1 March, and is as currently announced a three month
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Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) : Tax, revenue, money and the role of tax in the economy
As was discussed in the introduction to this section on Tax and Society within the Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) project, tax has at least six
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Adding value: a tale from Stonehenge
I love this photo of the top of one of the standing stones at Stonehenge, featured in the Guardian this morning. The two ‘Lego-like’ knobs
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Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) : The inspiration
I conceived of the Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) project after very recently re-reading Keynes’ ‘How to pay for the war’. As James Keenan has noted
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