I had a paper published by the Real World Economic Review in the last few days. This is on modern monetary theory and taxation. The
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The UK trust is in decline and tax justice campaigns have played a key part in that
It is my habit to mark successes for tax justice. I see no reason why not. If campaigning does not change things it is not
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The demand for tax spillover assessments
The World Bank and IMF backed Global Initiative for Financial Transparency coalition sent me their newsletter yesterday, which included this: The declaration they refer to
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Boris Johnson is promoting tax competition, which is always and inevitably harmful to society
The Guardian reports this morning that: Boris Johnson has signalled his hope to push down tax rates and diverge from EU standards and regulations after Brexit,
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The death throes of old style globalisation
As the FT notes this morning, an IMF report authored by Jannick Damgaard, Thomas Elkjaer, and Niels Johannesen of Copehngane University has suggested that: A
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IPPR joins the call fro capital gains to be taxed as income
IPPR has issued a report this morning calling for the alignment of tax rates on capital gains tax with the equivalent income tax rate applicable
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Amazon: setting the record straight
The right-wing, anti-business having to pay their fair share of tax brigade were out in force on the blog yesterday. They were incensed by my
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Amazon, tax and the square root of diddly squat
The Guardian features this article this morning: It’s about the absence of anticipated tax payments by Amazon in the UK, based on reasonable extrapolation of
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The G7 and tax – a sign of chaos to come?
This blog post by me was published on the Class think tank blog this morning. I am on the Class advisory board: I have watched
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