I was one of more than 3,000 signatories to this article in the Guardian and elsewhere this morning, originally published by Democratising Work: Working humans
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Money for nothing (and no, not the Dire Straits version)
Peter May has added this video to the Tax Research wiki page on money. As he says, this is: Probably the best’ half hour video
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UK government debt: an explanation
In the light of media interest in UK government debt I thought it was worth offering an explanation of it: The transcript is something like
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UK government debt: some facts
The House of Commons Library is a much overlooked and valuable source of information. When I was looking for data on a related issue this
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The treatment of Transport for London is the surest sign that the government wants the economic damage from this crisis to last for as long as possible
I suspect that if there had been a prize for guessing the first publicly owned institution to fail because of the coronavirus crisis few would
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Is there just a chink of light in the SNP opposition to fiscal independence for the country?
There is interesting commentary on BBC Scotland this morning for those who follow Scittosh monetary affairs. They note: Andrew Wilson, an economist and former SNP
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The cost of UK government borrowing 1946 to 2020
I have already shown that there is nothing exceptional, odd or worrying about UK public debt now, and will not be even if it increases
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UK net public debt 1692 to 2020
This is a plot of UK net public debt from 1692 to 2020. Data is from here. We’re used to seeing plots from 1980 onwards.
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Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) : Abolishing higher rate tax relief on gifts to charity
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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