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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There was a fundamental flaw in the first line of the Executive Summary of HM Revenue & Customs’ Transformation Roadmap, published, like many other government
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Advertising makes you unhappy with what you have, and even who you are. That’s how it works. So, do we need to better regulate it?
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One of the most difficult questions in politics right now is why Labour will not increase taxes on the wealthy. They could, and they should.
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The exponents of wealth taxes claim that they’re a great way of raising additional tax revenue. They forget just how hard it is for anyone
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As the Guardian has noted this morning: Predictions that adding VAT to private school fees would set off a wave of parents moving children to
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It’s long been a US Republican dream to get rid of the IRS – the US federal tax authority. Now the goal is within their
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Nothing Trump is saying, doing or enacting makes any sense – so is his real goal to Make America Dysfunctional Again – or MADA? There
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I have questioned the merits of Adam Smith’s four supposed principles of taxation in the past, but would agree with one of them. That one
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