It’s April Fool’s day, but the only fools are in the government, who think that the people of this country can be taken for a
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Is HM Revenue & Customs turning the payment of tax into a voluntary activity for some?
AccountingWEB has a chilling article out this week by tax commentator Philip Fisher. As he notes: In November 2021, the National Audit Office (NAO) issued
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Amazon, or not?
I have a question on which guidance is needed. It has been suggested that I should use Amazon to turn publications like ‘Money for nothing
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It’s time to take royalty out of the constitution
I spent some time yesterday telling myself that I really did not need to write anything about the conduct of the Queen. However, in the
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Sunak is withholding billions from those in need on the basis of accounting that he knows to be dubious. As evidence of immoral conduct goes, this is pretty staggering
I posted this Twitter thread yesterday. As it was actually written on Twitter I do not have a text version to share: The OBR forecast
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The government is forecasting a big fall in its interests costs just as it wants to give tax cuts in 2024
There was a fascinating discussion between commentators Andrew and Clive Parry on this post yesterday relating to the calculation of interest costs on index-linked gilts.
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Is Sunak a fit and proper person to be in charge of the nation’s finances?
Sky broadcast a damning interview with Rishi Sunk yesterday in the links he has, via his wife and her holdings in Infosys, to Russia, in
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Trust registration starts from 1 September: another barrier to tax transparency is falling
In 2005 John Christensen and I wrote this in Tax Us If You Can – the manifesto of the fledgling Tax Justice Network that went
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This is not the time for dogma. This is the time for pragmatism to address the tsunami of poverty heading our way
I posted the following thread on Twitter last night, and reproduce it here even though it clearly attracted little interest there. I am incredibly worried
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