2020 October 16

The dispute with Northern cities is all about money when right now we can have as much of that as we like

Posted on October 16 2020

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

Posted on October 16 2020

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

Posted on October 16 2020

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

Posted on October 16 2020

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

Posted on October 16 2020

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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