The abrdn Financial Fairness Trust has issued a new report suggesting that: As the nation prepares to go to the polls, new research shows people
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This has been a dismal election campaign for tax
Is it too soon for an election campaign retrospective? I don’t think so. In that case this is my first. This campaign has been dominated
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A worldwide wealth tax? Why do it, when local progress would be so much easier?
I note that the Guardian, amongst others, reports this morning that: An international scheme to tax the wealth of the world’s 3,000 billionaires is technically
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Will Labour have the sense to go for wealth taxes?
As the Guardian has reported: The Labour party has been drawing up options for how it could raise money through extra wealth taxes to help rebuild Britain’s
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Freeports are dangerous
I have, as usual, published a new video this morning in which I suggest that Rishi Sunak’s very limited legacy will include the creation of
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If you look in the wrong place, as Labour plans to do, you will never find the tax gap
HM Revenue & Customs published its new tax gap figures yesterday. They are nonsense, as they always have been. I have explained why here as
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Why the Tories think it’s OK to gamble on elections, and the much more sinister dimensions to this belief
Why do the Tories think they can bet with insider information, as they obviously did before the election was called? It’s because they think that
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My appearance on the Jeremy Vine show, yesterday
As I mentioned yesterday, I was on the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2 yesterday in which I was in discussion with a person
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Jeremy Vine: 12 noon, today on BBC Radio 2
I am in Sheffield this morning to present a new draft paper that my colleague, Prof Andrew Baker and I are writing on an appraisal
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