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 right to disagree
The Observer commentator Nick Cohen is not much loved by many on the left it seems to me. That’s because he is a liberal. But
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We need accounting for employees
The FT has reported today that: More than four-fifths of employees at PwC UK come from a higher socio-economic background, according to data that for
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Yesterday’s tax plans were all about capturing tax revenues for private gain to the wealthy at cost to working people
Given that much of yesterday’s Tory tax plan was well-trailed and had been subject to comment here beforehand there would seem little left to say
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The Tories sold a social care con-trick yesterday that will do almost nothing to help those in real need
Yesterday was an unusual day in UK politics. What the Tories recognised, albeit deeply reluctantly, was that the boundary between the state needed to be
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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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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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Sunak’s 1% national insurance charge to fund the NHS is a deliberate, callous and unnecessary move to increase inequality and hardship in the UK
There are widespread reports this morning that the Tories are planning at least a one per cent increase in national insurance to fund an increase
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Why are tax havens harmful?
In the first three videos in this series on tax havens I explored why tax havens should really be called secrecy jurisdictions, what tax havens
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