I note that Tim Worstall is persisting in his claims that my methodology used in the TUC report, The Missing Billions, is flawed. I have
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The Guardian’s Tax Gap
The Guardian has begun its Tax Gap series. And those who spend their whole lives seeking to be negative are already pointing out that in
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It takes 2.4 million households to pay for the tax gap
The Guardian has launched its Tax Gap series. As it notes: Last October the public accounts committee criticised the Treasury for its inability to measure
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Just in case you’re in Westminster next Tuesday
As the debate on staving off recession moves on to tax, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) will be holding a public meeting on
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From the Mirror this morning
A new convert to the cause. This form the Daily Mirror this morning: The PM should follow the President-elect’s lead, ensuring those with the deepest
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Abolishing the domicile rule could have paid for this
The Guardian has reported that: Child poverty in Britain has increased for the second year in a row, government figures revealed yesterday, putting Labour’s target
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Questions for Bill Dodwell
Bill Dodwell, head of tax at Deloittes UK ha suggested my work on the Tax Gap is ‘just rubbish’. Well, it’s a free country, and
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The Tax Gap methodology is valid
There’s a chap called Tim Worstall who writes a blog and who seems pretty fixated on what I write. The difficulty for Tim Worstall (who,
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Raising VAT is not the answer to the corporation tax problem
I admit that there are moments when I quietly despair of the harm that is likely to result from so called tax reforms. This morning
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