A little over a week ago The Times published an article noting that John Christensen and I had resigned our associations with the Tax Justice
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Sunak’s NIC rise is not just a disaster for most people, it’s a disaster for the whole idea of devolved government as well
Unless the government briefing machine has gone very wrong we are going to see the announcement of 1.25% increases in both employer’s and employee’s national
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The current chaos cannot continue. The worry is we don’t know when it will end, or what will come next
Nobody expected a shortage of bed linen in hotels to be a consequence of Brexit. But along with shortages of food, cars, blood testing bottles
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Is national insurance regressive?
I saw claims published yesterday that national insurance is not regressive. I have to say that I disagree. Based on the analysis I have done
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Charging national insurance at 12% on all employees, including those earning over £50,000 a year, could raise £14 billion of extra tax a year
I have been asked how much additional national insurance might be due in the UK as a whole in each year if all earnings were
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If the tax rates on wealth and wealth increases were the same as those on income the UK might collect more than £170 billion of extra tax a year
I wrote the blog post that follows this introduction in April 2020. I was anticipating the fact that there would be a furious debate when
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What can be done about tax havens?
In the first four videos in this series on tax havens I have explored how they work, what they abuse, and why that abuse should
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Sunak’s class warfare – in the Mirror
My argument that national insurance should not be used to fund inreased spending on social care made it to The Mirrior this morning: You can
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Positive Money and the Bank of England are completely wrong to support the idea of a central bank digital currency for the UK
Positive Money has made an appeal asking that people support the idea of a Bank of England central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the UK.
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