I was reminded of this debate between Arthur Laffer (yes, him of the Laffer curve) and me that took place three years ago by a
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Transparency Principles for Tax Policy and Administration: a public consultation from October 2021 to January 2022
I share this post from the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency, which promotes a public consultation based on work I have done with Prof Andrew
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Labour has a choice to make. It can say it will balance the books or it can deliver political change, but it can’t do both
I noted the Politics Home email this morning suggesting that whilst the Tories have made almost no policy announcements in Manchester this week they have
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Are Johnson’s days numbered?
Across the board journalists are turning on the Prime Minister. The BBC is doing it, Nick Robinson and Laura Kuenssberg included. Gary Gibbon did it
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Sunak: a Chancellor without a moral compass or an understanding of economics
Yesterday’s speech by Rishi Sunak was, as I mentioned in a tweet I posted just after he spoke, almost entirely vacuous when it came to
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Why are so many well known firms of accountants still operating in tax havens?
The Pandora Papers continue to draw attention to tax abuse. As I mentioned yesterday, the real need is to mention solutions though. We have known
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The Pandora Papers are old news: the question is whether the measures now being taken are already impacting what is happening offshore?
I have not given the so-called Pandora Papers that are exciting some of the media and the tax justice movement much attention. There are a number
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We need to know which audits are not up to scratch
As the FT has noted this morning: As they say in the opening paragraphs of the story: The UK accounting regulator is under pressure to
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The ability of neoliberal economics to crush the lifeblood out of an economy and the people of a country has not ended as yet
My column in The National this week came out last night instead of being in its usual Friday slot: My argument is: One big issue
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