HM Revenue & Customs published their latest tax gap estimates yesterday. These cover the tax year 2023/24. The summary data looks like this and presents
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What Dan Neidle gets wrong about tax on wealth
Dan Neidle, who seems to think he is God’s gift to neoliberal tax policy because he was once the head of tax at the highest-earning
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Why can’t Labour get things right?
There was a great deal of discussion here yesterday about the government’s decision to reinstate the winter fuel allowance, with decidedly complicated tax arrangements attached
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 in The Guardian
There are moments when any writer wonders whether anyone but their friends and family is taking a lot of notice. I admit that social media
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Why is Labour talking total economic nonsense to justify its desperate desire to keep children in poverty?
Bridget Phillipson MP, who is the Education Secretary, is telling the morning media rounds that if the government were to restore the winter fuel allowance,
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Are the wealthy ripping off HM Revenue & Customs?
The National Audit Office (NAO) issued a report yesterday that suggested: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) defines wealthy individuals as those earning more than £200,000
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Labour is playing to the fascists whilst hurting hundreds of thousands of people.
As the BBC has reported: Care workers will no longer be recruited from overseas as part of a crackdown on visas for lower-skilled workers, the
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The House of Lords: the rich and the poor
I thought it worth sharing this video from Prem Sikka, who is an old friend of mine, another Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University
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Why doesn’t the UK punish people who break company law?
Why doesn’t the UK government care about the fact that UK company law is not enforced? What is the point of having law that they
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