I liked this form the Tax Justice Network: The full report is here. Note however two things. The first is that the UK is not
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The Daily Telegraph now admits there is a ‘magic money tree’ and that it shatters the case against wealth taxation
As Peter May noted on the Progressive Pulse blog yesterday: Even the Daily Telegraph has now admitted there is a Magic Money Tree. The assistant editor
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There are such things as good accountants
As many readers here will now be aware, amongst my other activities I am a columnist for AccountingWEB, of which I was a contributing editor
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Question of the day: should we bail out companies that use tax havens?
As was noted in some media yesterday: Denmark and Poland are refusing to let companies registered in offshore tax havens access financial aid from their coronavirus bailout packages. The
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The Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) project
The Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) project is a new initiative that I am creating which will be published in the first instance as a series
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Bailouts should be subject to conditions, and most especially so in the case of bigger businesses
The FT has noted that: Muriel Pénicaud, the French labour minister, has personally called the bosses of big French companies to persuade some of them
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Tax abuse, tax havens and Modern Monetary Theory
I was asked yesterday on this blog why issues such as tax abuse and the use of tax havens remain important when modern monetary theory
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Could tax haven wealth help tackle coronavirus?
I’m resting, but others are blogging. This is from Nick Shaxson at the Tax Justice Network, with permission: Could the wealth in tax havens help
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How to help the self-employed through this crisis without a universal basic income – which we cannot deliver right now
There has been much discussion over the last few days about the desirability of a universal basic income (UBI) for the United Kingdom. Demand for
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