I was asked yesterday whether it was possible for a local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) (the supposedly GP controlled commissioning bodies within the NHS) to
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A commentator on this blog has asked why I think it necessary to tax, most especially in developing countries, when I also argue that government
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The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales’s Tax Assembly on Friday was an interesting event – from which I tweeted, often. I think
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Benjamin Franklin once said  that only two things in life are certain. One is death, and the other taxation.  You would not, however, know this
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I have published a report this morning that was written as a briefing for the Africa Progress Panel in January 2014. They asked me to
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I  wrote a blog yesterday suggesting that despite the impression given by law and practice direct taxes, such as corporation tax, are not in fact
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If you talk to tax practitioners they will tell you that tax is divided into two broad types. Firstly there is direct tax, which, they
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According to the Guardian, David Cameron will today “repeat Margaret Thatcher's mantra that there is no such thing as government money — only taxpayers' money.”
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I gave not redacted full decision in what will now inevitably be called the Chris Moyles tax case. I have read parts. It seems that
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