The Bill to approve the Brexit deal has been published. Included is this wonderful clause, which basically says a Minister may enact anything they wish
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My elder son and I were discussing politics over Christmas, as is our habit, and he accused me of being an idealist. That resonated with
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I posted this not long ago as a Twitter thread: The more I read it the more I am perplexed by the Brexit deal. It
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I wrote this in July, but since Freeports are supposedly to be one of the big advantages of Brexit (even though they are possible within
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Helen Schofield, Twitter and Facebook all drew my attention to a new report from the Gower Initiative for Modern Monetary Studies this morning. As Helen
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I threw together a quick post on tax havens and the Brexit deal on Christmas Eve, noting that the UK’s tax havens were likely to
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The Brexit deal’s arrangements with regard to tax are surprisingly limited, unless they relate to VAT  and imports and exports. As far as I can
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This comes from the government’s analysis of its Brexit deal, leaked this morning to Guido Fawkes (quite deliberately, I am sure): There will be much
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I tried writing various Christmas posts this morning. Unusually for me, several drafts hit the bin. It’s not a year for inappropriate sentiment. It hardly
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