As I noted in my column in The National yesterday: My argument was this: [Freeports] exist to promote the ideas of far-right politicians who hate
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The Republicans are seeking to defund the US tax authority. How long will it be before the Tories copy them?
The Republicans in the US House of Representatives took a long time to agree on a Speaker last week. But having done so, they got
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The tax gap: the biggest waste of all?
This tweet has links to an article by me for Bylines: The Bylines Network special feature article this month comes from @RichardJMurphy, who explains how
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Is Truss signalling that she wants flat taxes for the UK?
I heard Liz Truss say to Laura Kuenssberg that she wanted a simpler UK tax system this morning. I immediately tweeted this: Then I noticed
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Weekend reading
Tax spillovers, the REF and tax transparency
As academics know, the REF, or Research Excellence Framework, is a big deal as far as universities go. Happening once every even years it appraises
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Tory leadership hopefuls are playing a game of fantasy tax cuts and we’ll all pay a heavy price for that
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Tax cuts are in the news as Tory party leadership candidates are talking about them as if
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On the tax gap, in the Guardian
My comments on the tax gap made yesterday were picked up in the Guardian which quotes me saying: Richard Murphy, a tax expert, said the
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HMRC is marking its own homework again on the tax gap – and very oddly found it did almost exactly the same as it always does
It is HMRC tax gap day – which is the day when they admit how much tax they did not collect, in their estimation. My
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