Labour gave no positive clues on where they might raise revenue during the election campaign. So, what might they do in the October budget? And
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Labour should be picking on tax cheats
In this morning’s video, I argue that instead of picking on children in poverty and pensioners needing support with fuel bills to pay the price
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If Rachel Reeves wants more money she needs to crack down on small business tax evasion
The National Audit Office (NAO) published a report this morning that says: The UK is losing billions of pounds a year in revenue due to
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We need to reform inheritance tax now if rising inequality is to be tackled
The FT had an article yesterday in which it referred to what it called the great wealth transfer. As it noted: Over the next 20
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Labour could make business publish what it pays
This morning’s ‘Labour could’ video has now been published. In it, I argue that big business pays a large proportion of the UK’s taxes. They
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The last thing this Labour government needs to deliver is austerity
We have a new government that is dedicated to austerity on the basis of its claim that ‘there is no money left’. It seems like
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If you look in the wrong place, as Labour plans to do, you will never find the tax gap
HM Revenue & Customs published its new tax gap figures yesterday. They are nonsense, as they always have been. I have explained why here as
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It’s time to get rid of the UK’s tax anomalies
I have posted this video this morning. In it, I suggest that the UL tax system is riddled with anomalies and loopholes and that if
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We have found the limits of the digital world. There is still a need for human beings. HMRC should acknowledge the fact
The National Audit Office has issued a damning report on HM Revenue & Customs telephone support services, saying: Customers cumulatively spent 798 years on hold
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