I was pleased to note this email from the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) yesterday: I recently highlighted my own critical role in
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Farage is for the rich
This is the third in a series of posts on the politics of Nigel Farage and Reform, all of which treat the two as effectively
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How country-by-country reporting exposed tax havens
Something called country-by-country reporting, which I created, changed the tax world forever. It forced multinationals to reveal how much profit they were shifting into tax
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How to end phoenixing
As the FT notes this morning: HM Revenue & Customs has lost hundreds of millions of pounds more than previously estimated to an insolvency practice
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Gary Stevenson and the failure of the left
As readers here will know, the weekend before last, Gary Stevenson admitted that he did not know how to create a wealth tax and would
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The TUC says the public support higher taxes on wealth
The TUC published this press release yesterday, and I am going to share it as they published it, because I think it is interesting enough
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Can Rayner survive?
I am already immensely bored by the Angela Rayner stamp duty story. For the record, I doubt she will survive this episode in office. Her
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Is Labour trapped in neoliberal thinking?
Labour has an economic problem – and appointing Minouche Shafik as Starmer’s senior economic adviser will not fix it. Shafik represents the neoliberal technocracy that
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Tax transparency really matters
The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), the International Budget Partnership (IBP) and the University of Sheffield have launched a major new training programme on
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