The National Audit Office has issued a damning report on HM Revenue & Customs telephone support services, saying: Customers cumulatively spent 798 years on hold
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Wealth taxes won’t work
I have posted this video on YouTube this morning: The transcript is as follows: Lots of people are calling for wealth taxation to be introduced,
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Advertising is designed to make you miserable
I posted this video on YouTube this morning: In case the link does not work for you, it can be found here. The transcript is
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Pragmatic approaches to taxing income from wealth more can always raise more money than a wealth tax
I was asked to comment on Brazil’s proposal for a global 2% annual wealth tax on billionaires by a journalist, yesterday. This is what I
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Why more government spending can require more tax revenue
I posted this video, which explains why more government spending in the UK is likely to require more tax revenue to be raised, at least
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What is fair when it comes to tax?
I posted this video on YouTube this morning: This is the transcript: Taxes should be fair. I think that’s obvious. Well, it should be to
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 and modern monetary theory – again
I had a Twitter direct mail message from a quite well-known person a few days ago, asking two questions about the Taxing Wealth Report 2024.
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Who are the wealthy?
I posted this video on YouTube this morning: This is the transcript: Who are the wealthy? That’s a really important question, especially when I’ve written
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Capital gains tax on houses – again
I returned to the subject of capital gains tax on people’s homes yesterday, knowing well that of all the proposals I made in the Taxing
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