The House of Lords Economic Affairs Finance Bill committee has now published its report on Making Tax Digital (MTD). I submitted written and oral evidence to
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The two most powerful politicians in the UK
Sometimes it takes one small comment to make you look at things in a new light. The BBC news delivered such a comment last night.
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On Scotland, data, data denial and GERS
I continued to find myself in the middle of a Twitter and blogging storm yesterday as a result of my comments on the quality of
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More on why GERS might properly be called crap data
I was not quite as aware as perhaps I should have been about how passionate some Scots are on national income accounting, whether for their
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Why economic data provided by London will not help the Scottish independence debate
Scotland will have another independence referendum: the only question is when. I have little doubt that if I was Scottish I would vote Yes again. That,
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Labour: stuck in the middle in Scotland
This was tweeted last night: It looks like a disaster for Labour, because it is. But reflect for just a moment and what’s obvious is
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It may be legally possible for Scotland to stay in the Customs Union, and even the Single Market
I was asked by a Scottish journalist yesterday whether or not Scotland could stay in the EU single market now that England has made clear
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Scottish income tax is an admin disaster waiting to unfold
The National Audit Office reported on the problems of implementing a Scottish income tax yesterday, saying: The key challenge to HMRC’s delivery of the Scottish
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Scotland’s wee steps towards tax sovereignty
The FT has reported the SNP Scottish government’s first, rather tentative, steps towards income tax independence from the rest of the UK. The move is
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