The following are the speaking notes for a lecture I am giving this morning at the Treasury ——————– The title of this lecture has, I
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Set up on your own to beat 50% tax rate
Set up on your own to beat 50% tax rate – Times Online . The abuse business is rolling ahead of the 50% tax rate.
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ISAs – a waste of £2 billion
FTAdviser.com – Focus: How to take further shelter from the taxman. ISAs have to be one of the biggest wastes of £2 billion ever invented.
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Polly, bank and tax losses
I was an acknowledged source for Polly Toynbee’s column in the Guardian this morning, so I’ll quote at length: Nothing has changed. Obscene pay is
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Time for a General Anti-Avoidance Principle
Mark Lee has kindly drawn my attention to two articles of some significance. The first is the editorial of Taxation magazine this week — written
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Keep me out of this
I appeared in unexpected places this weekend: in the Independent talking about tax returns (yes, I still do some for selected clients — but please
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When is a tax illegal?
Well, when it’s ruled so by a relevant body. The EU did that to the UK yesterday. Mark Lee offers a thoughtful analysis here. So,
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$690bn a year
As the Tax Justice Network notes on its blog, Germany’s Finance Minister, Peer Steinbr?ºck, has just written this: "Citizens are aware of the hundreds of
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Think before you tax
FT.com / UK / Politics & policy – Clegg proposes tax on homes worth over £1m. The Lib Dems have proposed an additional tax on
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