In this morning’s video I address the topic that, long ago, really got this blog going, which is tax havens. I note that I keep
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The wealthy disrupt economies and we cannot afford that
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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The far-right are coming for tax
I have published this video this evening. In it, I argue that far-right politicians hate government, or so they say. For decades they tried to
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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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Why do we give small companies a free tax ride in the UK?
My video this morning notes that HM Revenue & Customs reckons more than 30 per cent of all tax owing by small UK limited companies
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Tax havens are still a threat to our well-being
I posted this video to YouTube this morning. In it, I argue that Tax havens are still a massive threat to the well-being of the
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Pragmatic approaches to taxing income from wealth more can always raise more money than a wealth tax
I was asked to comment on Brazil’s proposal for a global 2% annual wealth tax on billionaires by a journalist, yesterday. This is what I
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Who are the wealthy?
I posted this video on YouTube this morning: This is the transcript: Who are the wealthy? That’s a really important question, especially when I’ve written
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