I sent the final chapter of the Joy of Tax to my publisher yesterday afternoon. After years of this being a title in need of a
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Update on The Joy of Tax
Seven chapters of the Joy of Tax are written. The eighth is well under way. There are three weeks left to finish them all if
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The Joy of Tax in The Bookseller
What I want in 2015: sensible debate on tax
I shouldn’t be depressed by debate on tax, but I almost invariably am whenever a politician or an economist discusses the issue. Since most economists
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Tax works: now let’s get on and use it for social good
There’s welcome news this morning from the FT that the impact of the new 7% stamp duty rate on house sales at more than £2
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Sweden sees sense
Having blogged about the fact that I am about to start work writing ‘The Joy of Tax’ it was good to note this in the
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The Joy of Tax is on its way
For a number of years I said I was working on a book called The Joy of Tax. However the immediacy of campaigning and the
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Tonights tweets on the neoliberal breaking of the social consensus on the merits of tax
I didn’t intend to have a twitter rant aimed at those who say they can’t see how the UK tax consensus has been broken tonight, but I
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It’s time to increase the tax on unearned income. It’s so glaringly obviously true why will no one say it?
George Monbiot has an excellent article on tax in the Guardian this morning. At its core is an argument for land value taxation, which he explains has long had
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