In shocking news this morning, a wealthy man – Dan Neidle of Tax Policy Associates, who used to be senior tax partner of Clifford Chance,
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The government still insists tax funds government spending – and it doesn’t
There was a fundamental flaw in the first line of the Executive Summary of HM Revenue & Customs’ Transformation Roadmap, published, like many other government
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Wealth series 5: What are the wealthy worth?
Taxing the wealthy sounds easy. But what happens when we don’t actually know what they own or what it’s worth? In this fifth video in
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Why has inequality grown, and how can we make sure that the rich contribute?
This is a summary of the presentation I intend to make to a Citizens’ Assembly this morning: Talk to the Citizens’ Assembly 21 July 2025
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Wealth series 4: Why are the very wealthy so very wealthy?
This video is the fourth in our series on wealth — and the second asking a crucial question: Why are the wealthy wealthy? In this
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Wealth series 3: Why are the wealthy so wealthy?
In this third video in our series on the wealthy, I explore why the comfortably wealthy in the UK — those with £3 million or
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Making the wealthy pay is essential to tax justice
The tax gap remains in the news this week. Today, the Public Accounts Committee has published a new report on the issue in which they
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The wealth series 2: Who are the wealthy?
Just how rich are the wealthy? In this video, I break down official data to show who truly owns Britain’s wealth. From the bottom 10%
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The FT needs to get its head around wealth, and the need to tax it
The Financial Times published an editorial yesterday which revealed more about the priorities of the economic establishment than it probably intended. The FT editorial team
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