Less than a month ago I rather innocently, but I think entirely appropriately, wrote a blog about the lack of suitable data available to the
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I have already written about what I think the foundations of Scottish taxation should be. This thinking is based on a report I have submitted
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I have been asked to give evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Finance and Constitution Committee on the subject of the Foundations of Scottish Taxation and
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The FT featured an article on Thursday that I thought relevant to my recent debate on the quality of Scottish economic data. The Telegraph then
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Robin McAlpine, who directs an organisation called Common Weal in Scotland, wrote a great blog for them yesterday under the above title. What he quite effectively
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My contribution to the Politics Home podcast a week ago, when I discussed the above theme, has been turned into a discreet entity. This is
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I was interviewed on the above subject by Politics Home this week. You can hear it here starting at about 20 minutes 30 seconds. They
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My attention was drawn yesterday to a blog by Graeme Roy of the Fraser of Allander Institute, which claims to be ‘Scotland’s leading independent economic
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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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