HM Revenue & Customs published its new tax gap figures yesterday. They are nonsense, as they always have been. I have explained why here as
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My appearance on the Jeremy Vine show, yesterday
As I mentioned yesterday, I was on the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2 yesterday in which I was in discussion with a person
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Jeremy Vine: 12 noon, today on BBC Radio 2
I am in Sheffield this morning to present a new draft paper that my colleague, Prof Andrew Baker and I are writing on an appraisal
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The weird world of tax anomalies
UK journalists have been paying attention to tax anomalies this week, as I have in this morning’s main video. This comes from the FT: Amongst
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It’s time to get rid of the UK’s tax anomalies
I have posted this video this morning. In it, I suggest that the UL tax system is riddled with anomalies and loopholes and that if
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Why do we give small companies a free tax ride in the UK?
My video this morning notes that HM Revenue & Customs reckons more than 30 per cent of all tax owing by small UK limited companies
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The LibDems tax proposals needed a lot more thought. Good in parts, is the best that can be said.
The LibDems have been the first to release their manifesto for this election. To support it, they have published their ‘full costing’, because woe betide
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Labour will not be taxing wealth
As the FT reports this morning: The Tories introduced the lifetime pension cap. Based on the value of a fund, and not just contributions, it
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Is Labour going to increase taxes, after all?
Will Labout use at least some of the recommendations in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024? It seems possible. The FT has reported this morning that:
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