The Tories have announced that they want to end self-employed national insurance contributions. Two questions follow. The first is, why? This makes no sense. Why
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The LibDems tax proposals needed a lot more thought. Good in parts, is the best that can be said.
The LibDems have been the first to release their manifesto for this election. To support it, they have published their ‘full costing’, because woe betide
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Labour will not be taxing wealth
As the FT reports this morning: The Tories introduced the lifetime pension cap. Based on the value of a fund, and not just contributions, it
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Why aren’t politicians talking about the joy of tax?
I published this video this morning. In it, I ask why no politician wants to talk about the positive aspects of taxation during the election
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Is Labour going to increase taxes, after all?
Will Labout use at least some of the recommendations in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024? It seems possible. The FT has reported this morning that:
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Labour’s tax vacuum
I have been thinking some more about Keir Starmer’s performance in the ITV leaders’ debate last night, and have been noting reaction to it, both
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Has the IFS been reading the Taxing Wealth Report 2024?
I ask this question because, as the FT has noted: In the Taxing Wealth Report 2024, I argue for a number of reforms to pension
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A question for the leaders’ debate
I was asked this morning to ask for the party leaders’ debate this week. I recorded this video whilst having a coffee when editing a
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Do we really need to learn trigonometry?
This is my YouTube short of the day – based on my frustration that schools teach maths that is irrelevant to 99.8% of the population
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