The Guardian and other newspapers around the world are going to town this m morning on the fact that they have another leak from banks
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The UK needs a new tax politics
HM Revenue & Customs is under fire from the Public Accounts Committee this morning, and rightly so. In a new report they say: HMRC ignorance
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Total government losses to error and fraud are not £29bn as Lord Agnew suggested – they are much bigger than that, and they turn a deliberate blind eye to it
Lord Agnew resigned yesterday suggesting in the process that government losses to fraud were at least £29 billion a year. I am afraid I have
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Labour has to work out what being ‘pro-business’ means
Another day, another thread from Twitter: In an interview with the Financial Times Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP has pledged that a government led by
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Tax spillovers – what’s not to like about them?
I made this a couple of years ago – but it remains just as relevant now. We need the UK to do a proper tax
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The future direction of tax justice
I noted my reasons for concern about the direction in which the tax justice movement is moving on this blog yesterday. I described the strategy
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If we want thriving markets in the UK we have to beat tax evasion, but the government is not listening
I noticed this article in the American Economic Review yesterday: Nothing surprises me about this finding, which is completely consistent with arguments I have been
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Can we tax multi-millionaires?
The video in this post is the third in a series on how to tax multimillionaires. The first and second are here. In this video
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Why multi-millionaires pay too little in tax
It is a fact that multi-millionaires pay too little in tax in the UK and many other countries. This is not just because some of
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