Taxing the wealthy sounds easy. But what happens when we don’t actually know what they own or what it’s worth? In this fifth video in
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This is a summary of the presentation I intend to make to a Citizens’ Assembly this morning: Talk to the Citizens’ Assembly 21 July 2025
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In this third video in our series on the wealthy, I explore why the comfortably wealthy in the UK — those with £3 million or
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The tax gap remains in the news this week. Today, the Public Accounts Committee has published a new report on the issue in which they
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Just how rich are the wealthy? In this video, I break down official data to show who truly owns Britain’s wealth. From the bottom 10%
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The Financial Times published an editorial yesterday which revealed more about the priorities of the economic establishment than it probably intended. The FT editorial team
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I did this podcast-style interview for The National in Scotland last Friday, talking about the economics of benefits and the tax gap, in particular: I
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I noticed this in the FT yesterday: Downing Street has declined to categorically rule out imposing a “wealth tax” on Britain’s richest people after former
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As the Resolution Foundation reported in a new report entitled the Living Standards Outlook 2025:  “Taking into account the cost of living crisis, the typical
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