This article was written by Jonathan Barrett, who is a senior lecturer in Taxation, Te Herenga Waka at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand,.
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The Joy of Tax – an endorsement
I don’t get emails like this every day, I admit: “The Joy of Tax” is absolutely brilliant! I’m only on Chapter 3, and I’ve already
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Amazon can get it right
I try not to buy from Amazon, but it’s sometimes a useful place to look for a reference, like an ISBN number. This morning they
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Murphy – Laffer Tax Co-op Debate
I mentioned this morning that I was debating the faults of tax competition with Arthur Laffer in the appropriate environment of the OECD today. That
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KPMG’s tax illiteracy
I have been sent an article by Chris Morgan, KPMG head of tax in the UK. It has been written in advance of an event
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Thank you to someone in Waterstones
The can and bottle recycling charge will be a tax: it must be run as one
As the Guardian reports this morning: All drinks containers in England, whether plastic, glass or metal, will be covered by a deposit return scheme, the
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It’s time to tax wealth
There has been some welcome discussion of wealth taxation of late. Given the scale of wealth inequality in society this is overdue. But in this
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45 Theses on taxation and related issues: my homage to Martin Luther
Today is the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther supposedly posting his 95 Theses on the door of Wittenberg’s Castle Church. What precisely happened that day
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