Theresa May is retiring. Thank heavens, I thought. Apparently not everyone agreed. So, I struggled to recall her achievements. She once called the Tories the
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It’s not been a good week for fiscal rules. Jeremy Hunt has been mocked for his addiction to them. Everyone realises Labour has no chance
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 production process is coming to a close. Work on it has dominated my time over the last eight months. Writing
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Alan Peyton posted a comment on this blog yesterday noting a letter that he has sent to HM Treasury, among others, on the subject of
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There are a few bits of the final Taxing Wealth Report 2024, in whichever format it is produced, that I have written but which have
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From Yes Minister: Superbly written and acted, as usual.

I am working on putting the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 together as one document right now. I need an opinion from you, the readers of
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According to the Chancellor, all that matters about the Budget is that he meets his fiscal rule. For reasons that no one is aware of
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As predicted some time ago, Jeremy Hunt undermined the whole Labour election strategy by closing the non-dom rule yesterday. According to Labour, doing this was
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