2020 April 27

Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) : The tax spillover methodology that underpins the work

Posted on April 27 2020

The Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) project intends to suggest those reforms to the UK tax system that might be necessary to meet the demands of our
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A member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee has admitted that the Bank already operates in the way modern monetary theory describes: it directly funds government spending with tax being in the equation

Posted on April 27 2020

Gertjan Vlieghe is a member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee. He gave an important speech last week on monetary policy in the
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The time to scrap IFRS accounting has arrived

Posted on April 27 2020

The FT has two articles this morning highlighting the failure of accounting rules to handle the impact of the coronavirus crisis, most especially in banking.
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Double question of the day: when do we postpone leaving the EU and when does Johnson go?

Posted on April 27 2020

I am not willing to go back to debate on Brexit right now. This post is not seeking to do that. There are other issues
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It is still possible that food shortages will be the defining feature of the coronavirus crisis: the chance that we will need rationing remains high

Posted on April 27 2020

The Guardian reported last week that: According to a report produced by the UN and other organisations on Thursday, at least 265 million people are being
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