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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Prem Sikka reminds David Cameron of his commitments on country-by-country reporting
This exchange took place in the House of Lords yesterday: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con) One of the best things we can do for
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Tax and money flows within the economy
This post is the third of the three that relate to the economic ideas underpinning the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. The first was on tax
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Labour’s ideological vacuum
As Larry Elliott has noted in The Observer today: After last week’s emasculation of its green prosperity plan, [Labour’s] storyline has changed. It now reads:
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‘Revenue’ means to come back. Tax revenue quite literally recovers money already spent
I noticed part of an old post of mine being cited on Twitter yesterday. It was as follows: This is fascinating. What it shows is the
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Rishi Sunak’s tax for 2022/23: a Taxing Wealth Report 2024 case study
As has been widely reported in the media, Rishi Sunak’s tax return for 2022/23 was published yesterday. The data as published by his accountants has
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Labour is claiming that £28 billion of investment in climate change a year is not possible. But that’s not true. That’s Starmer’s choice.
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Labour says it cannot now afford to spend £28 billion a year to deliver the investment in
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