The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 is published in its final, complete form, this morning. It seeks to answer the question that every journalist loves to
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Freeports are a threat to free markets and to the wellbeing of the populations of all countries in which they exist
The National newspaper in Scotland has been running what I think to be a very important series on the threats posed by freeports during the
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Are HM Revenue & Customs intent on making the right amount of tax as hard as possible?
One of my arguments in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 was that HM Revenue & Customs should be transformed to make the UK tax system
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What the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 has not done, and what might happen next
There are a few bits of the final Taxing Wealth Report 2024, in whichever format it is produced, that I have written but which have
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Tax havens exist to undermine democracy. They are a fundamental threat to our way of life.
Not long after I first began to work on tax haven reform more than twenty years ago I realised that the problem that these places
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Removing the domicile rule would be a rare smart move by Jeremy Hunt
As the Guardian reports this morning: Jeremy Hunt is considering scrapping Britain’s non-domiciled tax rules in next week’s budget, it has been reported, in a
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Reforming the organisation, goals and funding of HM Revenue & Customs
I have this morning published the last substantial chapter of the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. Some introductory and concluding sections have still to be completed,
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HMRC have deliberately taken tax collection out of our communities and the price that we are paying for that is very high
I am continuing to work on data from HM Revenue & Customs on its accounts, the tax gap and other issues related to its management
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When the middle class is being gutted by the economy the Tories have created we are in trouble
The Financial Fairness Foundation has a new report out this morning of which they say: This paper outlines key findings from Caught in the middle?
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