Last summer I wrote this about the so-called Entrepreneur’s Relief that UK capital gains tax provides: Capital gains tax Entrepreneurs Relief does, in essence, reduce the
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Tax spillovers – the video
New from the Coffers project: And I know it’s a slightly odd production. The coffee cup lost relevance as the production was animated. And there
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The “Race to the Bottom” and how it makes us all poorer
New from the Tax Justice Network this morning, and well worth watching, my old friend John Christensen talks economics and tax and justice with Naomi
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The answer is Unitary Taxation
This comes from Public Services International, which is a Global Union Federation of more than 700 trade unions representing 30 million workers in 154 countries:
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Beating financial secrecy: an explainer
I admit I do not agree with the Tax Justice Network simplistic view that tax funds government spending (because it doesn’t) but that apart this
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HMRC plan to suspend the rule of law in the event of Brexit
The government has tabled the most extraordinary statutory instrument as a result of Brexit. It is called: The Cross-border Trade (Public Notices) (EU Exit) Regulations
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From modern monetary theory to modern taxation theory: a debate to be had
I had a paper published by the Real World Economic Review in the last few days. This is on modern monetary theory and taxation. The
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The demand for tax spillover assessments
The World Bank and IMF backed Global Initiative for Financial Transparency coalition sent me their newsletter yesterday, which included this: The declaration they refer to
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Tax spillovers at the Biarritz Summit
The next G7 summit is in Biarritz at the end of August. The G7 Research Group at the Munk Scool at the University of Toronto
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