I posted this thread on what I still refer to as Twitter, this morning: Of all the taxes in the UK that Jeremy Hunt could
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024: Recommendations made to date
I am presenting to the Green New Deal All-Party Parliamentary Group this morning. I thought that made it a good time to summarise the recommendations
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Taxing Wealth Report 2024: Council tax reforms
I have this morning published the latest note in my series that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. This latest note deals with
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If we need a tax cut, the last tax that needs cutting is inheritance tax
Rumours are spreading in newspapers and email comment columns that Jeremy Hunt thinks he might have ‘fiscal headroom’ for a tax cut this autumn. The
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Taxing Wealth Report 2024: Abolishing the domicile rule for tax purposes might raise £3.2 billion of tax revenue a year
I have this morning published the latest in my series of proposals that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this latest note, I consider
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Taxing Wealth Report 2024: reintroducing close company rules for income and corporation tax could raise at least £3 billion of tax a year
I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this latest note, I
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024: restricting charity tax reliefs to prevent their abuse
The latest in my series of proposals that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 has been published. In this latest note, I consider the
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Question of the day: is it right that those with unearned income pay less tax than those who have to work for a living?
People who work for a living in the UK pay a lot more tax than those who live off unearned income because there is no
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Destitution is not inevitable. It is what some have chosen to impose on others.
My column in The National this week was about human being’s capacity to be inhumane to other human beings. I used the example of poverty
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