As the Financial Times notes this morning: Chancellor Rachel Reeves is exploring reversing a decision to charge UK inheritance tax on the global assets of
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What Dan Neidle gets wrong about tax on wealth
Dan Neidle, who seems to think he is God’s gift to neoliberal tax policy because he was once the head of tax at the highest-earning
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Do tax havens still matter?
Tax havens – or secrecy jurisdictions – are an abomination on the global economic landscape that should have been consigned to history long ago. This
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Why can’t Labour get things right?
There was a great deal of discussion here yesterday about the government’s decision to reinstate the winter fuel allowance, with decidedly complicated tax arrangements attached
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What is the cost of means testing winter fuel allowance?
Rachel Reeves posted this on Twitter this lunchtime: This means 70% of all pensioners are going to have the winter fuel allowance restored after not
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Do we need a wealth tax?
Many people on the UK’s left want a wealth tax. The trouble is that one of those would take years to deliver. Taxing income and
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If Keir Starmer understood this one blog post he could transform the UK
As the Financial Times noted yesterday: Sir Keir Starmer has rejected calls from senior Labour figures to fill a growing fiscal hole with big tax
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Millions in the UK are one pay day from disaster
The UK is a country of massive wealth inequality, with all the stress landing on those the wealthy think to be the undeserving poor, which
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Why is Labour talking total economic nonsense to justify its desperate desire to keep children in poverty?
Bridget Phillipson MP, who is the Education Secretary, is telling the morning media rounds that if the government were to restore the winter fuel allowance,
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