As the FT has noted this morning: Italy has doubled a flat tax on the foreign income of new residents, in a blow to rich
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If you look in the wrong place, as Labour plans to do, you will never find the tax gap
HM Revenue & Customs published its new tax gap figures yesterday. They are nonsense, as they always have been. I have explained why here as
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The weird world of tax anomalies
UK journalists have been paying attention to tax anomalies this week, as I have in this morning’s main video. This comes from the FT: Amongst
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The LibDems tax proposals needed a lot more thought. Good in parts, is the best that can be said.
The LibDems have been the first to release their manifesto for this election. To support it, they have published their ‘full costing’, because woe betide
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Why is there no capital gains tax charge on houses?
I posted this video on YouTube this morning: The transcript is: Why is there no capital gains tax charge on private houses in the UK?
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Scotonomics on the Taxing Wealth Report
I was on Scotonomics last night, discussing the Taxing Wealth Report, and right at the end its relevance for Scotland. For reasons I can’t explain
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The rich won’t quit
This YouTube is a further discussion of ‘Colin’ and his threat to quit as a result of tax increases, already discussed in a different way,
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Poor, petrified, non-doms are terrified that they might have to pay some tax
The Guardian is reporting this morning that: “People are jumping on planes right now and leaving,” said Nimesh Shah, the chief executive of Blick Rothenberg,
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Why has Rachel Reeves appointed as her tax adviser a person who has said that tax is extortion and told parliament that he was not too worried about small businesses not paying their taxes?
Rachel Reeves has appointed Sir Edward Troup to be one of her four new tax advisers. He might be a former boss of HM Revenue
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