I did a series of tweets yesterday pointing out that the dispute between the Westminster government, the mayors of English northern cities and the First
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Support for a wealth tax appears to be higher than I would have expected, but debate on it just distracts attention from the much bigger issues that we face
In September the FT asked its readers if they supported a wealth tax. More than 1,000 replied. The result was surprising: Now of course it
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The right wing of economics really do need to learn some very basic things about money
My attention has been drawn to the Zero Hedge website where this has been posted: The conclusion of the piece was: I was asked to
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The Public Accounts Committee do not believe HMRC’s tax gap data, as I’ve been saying for years
The Public Accounts Committee has published a report this morning on HM Revenue & Customs’ approach to estimating the U.K. tax gap. It is pretty
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The tax gap: why HMRC has always seriously underestimated it
The Public Accounts Committee has published a new report on HM Revenue and Custom’s tax gap estimates this morning. As I will note in a
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