I have published the third in my series of recommendations for the reform of the taxation of higher earners and the wealthy this morning. This
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Wealth is undertaxed by £170 billion a year in the UK
The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 suggests that wealth in the UK might be undertaxed by up to £170 billion a year when compared to income
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Launching the Taxing Wealth Report 2024
I have this morning begun publishing the Taxing Wealth Report 2024: This introduction says: Brief summary This note summarises the issues that the Taxing Wealth
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Taxing wealth more
You might have missed yesterday’s editorial on inflation in the Guardian. This said: Why should ordinary households be made poorer when a few groups operating
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Microsoft has still not resolved its 2004 tax affairs
I was first involved in writing about Microsoft’s tax affairs in November 2005 when work I did was quoted in the Wall Street Journal (paywall).
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ISAs have a role in UK savings, but the creation of ISA millionaires was not one of them
As The Independent reports: The number of “Isa millionaires” has surged to more than 4,000, according to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) figures. Some 4,070 savers were sitting on
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HMRC have marked their own homework on the tax gap again and have awarded themselves a nice mark, as usual
Yesterday was HMRC tax gap day – which is the day when they admit how much tax they did not collect, in their estimation. My standard joke
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Tackling some token gesture tax issues will not end the egregious inequality built into the UK tax system
The Good Law Project issued a press release this morning saying: Good Law Project and Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity, have launched a legal challenge
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Why doesn’t Google’s new Bard AI service know what a Dutch Sandwich is?
I thought I would try out Google’s new AI tool which was relaunched yesterday. It goes by the name Bard. I asked it an innocent
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