As the FT has noted this morning: Italy has doubled a flat tax on the foreign income of new residents, in a blow to rich
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Will Reeves remove pension tax reliefs for the wealthiest?
This morning’s Telegraph Business newsletter features these comments: This is not the restriction on pension tax relief for the wealthiest that I propose in the
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Labour is a moral void
For those unaware of it, Labour suspended the whip from seven of its MPs last night after they voted against the King’s Speech because it
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Saving for intergenerational solidarity
My Green New Deal and Finance for the Future colleague, Colin Hines, had this letter in The Guardian this morning: Nesrine Malik is right that
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Growth is not going to work for Labour
[NB: this post started life as a video, but the edit went wrong, so it has become a blog post instead. That might explain the
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The last thing this Labour government needs to deliver is austerity
We have a new government that is dedicated to austerity on the basis of its claim that ‘there is no money left’. It seems like
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Given the choice, people want tax increases
The abrdn Financial Fairness Trust has issued a new report suggesting that: As the nation prepares to go to the polls, new research shows people
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A worldwide wealth tax? Why do it, when local progress would be so much easier?
I note that the Guardian, amongst others, reports this morning that: An international scheme to tax the wealth of the world’s 3,000 billionaires is technically
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Will Labour have the sense to go for wealth taxes?
As the Guardian has reported: The Labour party has been drawing up options for how it could raise money through extra wealth taxes to help rebuild Britain’s
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