An old friend, Ian Fraser, who wrote a great book on the failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland, reminded me of one of my
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Why has Rachel Reeves appointed as her tax adviser a person who has said that tax is extortion and told parliament that he was not too worried about small businesses not paying their taxes?
Rachel Reeves has appointed Sir Edward Troup to be one of her four new tax advisers. He might be a former boss of HM Revenue
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Rachael Reeves will not close the tax gap by looking overseas. Pretending that the problem is elsewhere is no longer realistic. It’s in her own backyard.
Rachel Reeves is making an announcement today on how she will plug the gap that she thinks exists in her financial plans as a consequence
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Farewell to the ICAEW
Amongst the things that I did not predict would happen during the course of 2024 was that I would leave the Institute of Chartered Accountants
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Capital gains should be subject to the same rate of tax as income
I have posted this video on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok this morning: The transcript is as follows: One of the proposals that I make in
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What a sorry state we are in
It is less than a year since I put the following quote from my 2011 book, ‘The Courageous State’ on this blog, but having noted
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Is it beyond the wit of our politicians to make up their own minds?
As has been my habit in recent days, I put up a Twitter poll yesterday. In the light of developments in Gazza, the question that
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Smelling the coffee
As the FT noted in its Lex column yesterday: First chocolate, now coffee — the supply of modern life’s necessities is being squeezed by a
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Oxford needs to wake up and smell the shit
I watched both boat races yesterday. Why? Because I wanted Cambridge to won. They do, after all, train in my home city of Ely on
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