Arthur Laffer’s “curve” is one of the most destructive ideas in modern economics. Sketched on a napkin in the 1970s, it claimed that cutting tax
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This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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The National Audit Office issued a report yesterday on efforts being made by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to tackle benefit fraud, and
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I was pleased to note this email from the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) yesterday: I recently highlighted my own critical role in
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Something called country-by-country reporting, which I created, changed the tax world forever. It forced multinationals to reveal how much profit they were shifting into tax
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The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), the International Budget Partnership (IBP) and the University of Sheffield have launched a major new training programme on
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Sociocide and pleonexia are not just words. They describe what’s happening in plain sight: the destruction of society by those who refuse responsibility for the
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The frequent commentator on this blog who uses the name Schofield suggested this morning, in response to today’s video, that: Not being willing to pay
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I read a pile of complete nonsense about inheritance tax yesterday. It was included in an email sent to me by somebody called Nigel Green,
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