As the FT noted yesterday: The number of UK house and flat sales plummeted last month after buyers accelerated their purchases in June to beat an
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Making Tax Work gets posted on the IMF website
I admit it’s not every day that I got a post on an IMF website, so this one is being posted as screenshots: The original
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Making Tax Work – out now
The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT) has now published the final version of a report I have written with Prof Andrew Baker of the
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Tax justice and tax spillovers – a priority for 2021
This is the fourth in a series of videos on where I think tax justice should be going in 2021 to both build on and
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HM Revenue & Customs is not fit for purpose
This comes from my paper on a future tax system for Scotland, but since it explains why HM Revenue & Customs does not provide a
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Scotland needs a new tax system
As The National newspaper in Scotland reports this morning: IN the fifth Scottish Independence Convention  Transition Paper — Tax Policy For An Independent Scotland —
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UK company law and tax enforcement is so bad it’s almost as if the government wanted to encourage tax abuse
The Guardian ran an excellent article yesterday on the likely tax abuse inherent in the outsourced Covid track and trace contracts. As they recounted: Many
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It really is time the world understood tax
I am seeing quite a lot of criticism of Biden’s tax plan for the US, from right across the political spectrum. MMT does not like
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Making Tax Work
A significant part of my work over the last year that has not previously featured on this blog is featured in the latest newsletter of
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