The Guardian reports this morning that: US multinationals underpaid £5.6bn in tax in the UK last year, HM Revenue & Customs believes, according to a
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Is it time to charge VAT on ultra-processed foods because of the massive harm that they do to society?
The Guardian has an article with this headline this morning: It also has an article with this headline: The two between them reveal a truth
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Why we do not need a wealth tax – but need to tax the income earned from wealth a great deal more
Many organisations on the left of UK politics are now calling for wealth taxes. The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 does not do so. It is
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If we are to save human life on earth we need to tax the wealthy a great deal more
As George Monbiot asks in the Guardian this morning: Why are billionaires blocking action to save the planet? It’s obscene that the super-rich can criminalise
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Reforming the conditions attached to pension tax relief could release £35 billion a year for investment in a UK Green New Deal
I have this morning published the latest note in my series that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. This latest note refers to a
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If today is all about Tory tax bribes it really will be a total waste of time
This is the morning when I know that almost anything I right now will be the equivalent of chip paper by lunchtime. Any speculation on
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I beseech you to cut inheritance tax, Sir
On Radio 5 this morning
I am on Radio 5 this morning, live sometime between 7.35 and 8, meaning that as I type I am sitting waiting for the phone
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Jeremy Hunt might be putting the worst possible ISA reform forward in the budget. There are alternatives.
According to the FT this morning: UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is being urged to summon his inner Kitchener at the Autumn Statement this week, reforming
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