The Guardian and other newspapers around the world are going to town this m morning on the fact that they have another leak from banks
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The UK needs a new tax politics
HM Revenue & Customs is under fire from the Public Accounts Committee this morning, and rightly so. In a new report they say: HMRC ignorance
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Total government losses to error and fraud are not £29bn as Lord Agnew suggested – they are much bigger than that, and they turn a deliberate blind eye to it
Lord Agnew resigned yesterday suggesting in the process that government losses to fraud were at least £29 billion a year. I am afraid I have
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Labour has to work out what being ‘pro-business’ means
Another day, another thread from Twitter: In an interview with the Financial Times Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP has pledged that a government led by
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Tax cuts for the rich do not trickle down, they just make the already wealthy even richer
The Socio-Economic Review published this paper in the past few days: I am not claiming to be an expert in the methods it uses to
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Tax spillovers – what’s not to like about them?
I made this a couple of years ago – but it remains just as relevant now. We need the UK to do a proper tax
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The future direction of tax justice
I noted my reasons for concern about the direction in which the tax justice movement is moving on this blog yesterday. I described the strategy
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Taxing the multi-millionaires – Charging capital gains tax on death
The UK tax system is biased in favour of the wealthiest people in the country. Amongst the many ways in which this is apparent is
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Taxing the multi-millionaires – Giving all tax reliefs at the same rate of tax
In a series of videos I am exploring the ways in which the UK tax system is biased towards the wealthy, making them richer compared
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