Bailiwick Express in Jersey has an article today on the use of a States of Jersey credit card by Senator Philip Ozouf, the former finance
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Edinburgh literary festival, August 14
Brussels is getting The Joy of Tax
I have already written about the tax conference I attended in Brussels over the last couple of days and discussed one of the hot topics
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It’s time to tax
The Tories made no promises on tax increases yesterday, VAT excepted. This was not by choice. This was by necessity. The reality is that as
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Theresa May commits the country to inequality, austerity and social division
Interviewed by Robert Peston this morning Theresa May said the Conservatives have no plans to increase taxes, and claimed Labour had. However, when asked to reiterate
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Tax and human development: the evidence
Following discussion on tax and GDP over the last day or so (see here and here) Prof Charles Adams of Durham University has done some
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Why on earth would you want a low tax economy?
Prof Charles Adams of Durham University played with the data I used yesterday to show the relationship between tax and GDP and recast the data
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Will the fact that tax is so obviously a good thing be discussed during this election?
A number of recent discussions, including the comments made by Alex Cobham to the Scottish parliament on the psychology of tax payment and discussion of potential
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The good and the (really quite) bad of Gordon Brown on Scotland
I apologise to all those who think I have suddenly become obsessed with Scotland, but there is another story on the political economy of that
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