The Public Accounts Committee has issued an unusually stark warning about the finances of local government in England. It has said in a new report:
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As the Financial Times notes this morning: Chancellor Rachel Reeves is exploring reversing a decision to charge UK inheritance tax on the global assets of
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Dan Neidle, who seems to think he is God’s gift to neoliberal tax policy because he was once the head of tax at the highest-earning
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I reproduce this letter from The Guardian because I recently took quite a lot of flak here for suggesting that Fiona Hill wrote some very
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As The Guardian notes this morning: Rachel Reeves is braced for revised forecasts by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to blow a £20bn hole in her
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The assumption that all economic growth is good is clearly misplaced. But how do we convince politicians and economists who are obsessed with growth that
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Education that pretends the world isn’t going to change serves no one. It’s time we taught people how to change with the times. This is
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No one talks about extreme centrists. They should, because they’re the people who want to maintain the status quo when it’s glaringly obvious that we
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My friend and former City, University of London, colleague Prof Atul Shah attended the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales AGM this week,
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