I got an email overnight that I could reply to as a private mail, or I could hide the identity of the person who sent
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A step forward for tax justice
As the FT noted this morning: Most of the tax justice movement will have nothing to do with OECD and EU efforts to beat tax
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What brought us to this sorry state where almost everyone but politicians can see what needs to be done?
As many sources note this morning, strikes are continuing. The ambulance workers’ dispute this week will undoubtedly cause deaths, on which the right-wing media are
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The tax gap: the biggest waste of all?
This tweet has links to an article by me for Bylines: The Bylines Network special feature article this month comes from @RichardJMurphy, who explains how
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We face an economic crisis because of ignorance, dogma and spite
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: The most difficult thing about writing about economics at the moment is working out why it is
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20,000
Purely by chance as I was beginning to moderate comments this morning I noticed that I had published 19,999 posts on this blog to date.
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If only the Institute for Economic Affairs understood accountancy
On Wednesday the Telegraph posted an article by Neil Record, who happens to be the Chair of the notorious Institute for Economic Affairs. The headlines
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HMRC is not closing the tax gap
The Public Accounts Committee has noted failures in HMRC’s work in closing the tax gap this morning due to staff being diverted to tackle Covid
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Consumers know what is happening – and that the government is deliberately trashing the economy
Consumer confidence in the UK continues to accurately reflect the fact that the government is doing its utmost to trash the economy by refusing adequate
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