To support some work I have been doing I wanted to check some data from the March 2020 budget. So I did a search for
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The UK government’s own accounts show that QE cancels government debt
The government has finally published its Whole of Government Accounts for 2018-19. The first thing to note are the dates: It takes 16 months to
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The right response to the question ‘What taxes should be raised to pay for coronavirus?’ is ‘None’
What taxes should we raise now? A video explanation
I am doing a presentation for the Fabian Society this evening as part of a discussion on Tax After Coronavirus. Tickets are available here. I
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There is but one route for the UK on trade deals now. The terms will be dictated to us, and they will be unfavourable
Do you remember all those ‘oven ready’ trade deals we were going to have which would be ‘the easiest thing to negotiate’? The FT reports
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