Way back in 2005, John. Christensen and I wrote what was to become the foundational document of tax justice, which it still is in many
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Are the rich going to leave?
In the run-up to the budget, I have seen claims that as many as one in five people are planning to leave the UK because
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As managers, Labour are utterly incompetent.
The Guardian has reported: Rachel Reeves is considering raising capital gains tax as high as 39% in the budget, the Guardian can reveal, amid a
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies’ proposed reform of capital gains is a long way from the reforms we need
The Institute for Fiscal Studies issued a new report on the reform of capital gains tax yesterday, some parts of which are welcome. Firstly, they
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Tackling inequality requires an increase in taxes on wealth
According to the Guardian yesterday: A failure by Rachel Reeves to back a “windfall of wealth taxes” in her budget risks fuelling the rise of the populist
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The tax avoiders are working overtime to save the domicile rule
The Guardian carried an article yesterday in which suggested that HM Treasury projections suggested that the proposed abolition of the so-called non-domicile rule by Labour,
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Freeports should be abolished
I have long campaigned against freeports. When they were first announced, and the opportunity to meet with the government was offered to those who objected
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Will Reeves reform HM Revenue & Customs?
Yahoo News appears to be just about the only media with this news story this morning: Tax dodgers will be targeted by Rachel Reeves, who
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£4 million from Cayman? That will do nicely, thank you
As Open Democracy has revealed: The Labour Party’s largest-ever donation came from a Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund with shares worth hundreds of millions of pounds
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