It’s long been a US Republican dream to get rid of the IRS – the US federal tax authority. Now the goal is within their
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Nothing Trump is saying, doing or enacting makes any sense – so is his real goal to Make America Dysfunctional Again – or MADA? There
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I have questioned the merits of Adam Smith’s four supposed principles of taxation in the past, but would agree with one of them. That one
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As the New York Times has reported: The Internal Revenue Service will begin laying off roughly 6,000 employees on Thursday as part of the Trump
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As the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has reported: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) estimates that tax evasion cost the UK £5.5 billion in
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The corruption rollout that is now the characteristic of Trump’s presidency continues today. As the FT has reported: Donald Trump has ordered the Department of
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Both the FT and the Guardian note criticisms of HM Revenue & Customs raised by the National Audit Office this morning. As the NAO says:
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Charter cities are a right-wing fantasy. They’re being prompted by the same people who gave us the economics of Liz Truss. And they’d be even
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When I began this blog, if a Treasury minister had enjoyed the benefit of a flat owned by an offshore trust it is very unlikely
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