Very shortly before the coronavirus pandemic really broke the Tax Justice Network published the first of a two-part series of articles on the relationship between
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Cancelling the NHS charge to migrant workers may be one U-turn, but it’s also a clear sign of systemic incompetence
The Johnson government has suffered its first, and quite humiliating, U-turn. As has been widely reported, despite Johnson’s staunch defence on Wednesday of the charge
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The SNP voted with Scottish Tories against country-by-country reporting yesterday: it was not their finest hour
The Scottish Parliament debated its second Coronavirus Bill yesterday. It was a heated debate, but I am only concerned with two amendments, which were numbers
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Question of the day: if you were wealthy would you be in favour of more taxes on wealth tax, and why?
It’s easy for most people to favour additional taxes on wealth. That is because they will not pay them. But suppose you were wealthy? Would
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Government budgeted income and expenditure 2000 – 2021
One of the issues that is becoming very apparent in recent weeks and months is how hungry people coming here are for data and reliable
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Capital gains increase income inequality in the UK: the time to align income tax and capital gains tax rates has arrived
As the Guardian has noted this morning: The highest paid 1% of British earners received nearly 17% of all the country’s income ahead of the Covid-19 crisis,
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Who is going to pay for it? The lenders are going to, at least in part
The FT has noted: When the question is asked ‘how are you going to pay for it?’ one answer now is ‘the people who lend
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Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) : Reforming council tax
The reasons why wealth needs to be subject to additional taxation has been discussed in another Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) post, with all links being supplied
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The time for company law reform has arrived so that we can be sure what every company in the UK is doing, and who owns and runs it
I did a search of Companies House this morning. I found 100 companies with Covid in their name. The vast majority have been formed in
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