The fifth recommendation that will eventually form part of the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 has been published. Like other suggestions in this series, this one
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The Tories are destroying the state by making working for it profoundly unattractive or unaffordable.
I noted these adjacent headlines on The Guardian homepage this morning: The message could not be clearer. The NHS and state education cannot recruit or
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 and the reform of tax administration
I have published a background note to the various sections of the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 that will address issues relating to the administration of
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When the right to vote is being restricted on the basis of race, income and disability are we still a democracy?
As the Guardian has reported this morning: Controversial rules governing voter identification led to racial and disability discrimination at this year’s local elections in England,
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Audit reform is so slow that the scandals are bound to continue
This is from the FT this morning: PwC is planning to give up tens of millions of dollars of consulting work for its US audit
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Aligning capital gains tax and income tax rates might raise more than £12 billion in tax a year
I have this morning published the fourth in my series of recommended changes to the UK tax system designed to address the fact that wealth
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Pointing out the massive under-taxation of wealth in the UK is not nonsense – it is totally fair
I published this thread on Twitter this morning: When I started publishing the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 I put out a note suggesting that the
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Carbon offsetting does not work, as I have previously suggested
I have noted a report in the Guardian that says: Shell has become the latest large company to pull back from carbon offsets amid concerns
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The use of aggregate data in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024
I was asked yesterday about why I am using HMRC aggregate data to estimate the impact of the tax proposals that I am making in
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