The TUC has published a new report this morning called Bonus Season. The summary says: Ending corporation tax relief for pay and bonuses worth more than 10
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#n30 – Fair Pensions for All
Next week up to 3 million people will strike for fair pensions. I support their call. That call is summarised in this leaflet. I was
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FTSE companies do not pay 26% tax
I note a story from a couple of days ago that has spun in all sorts of weird ways. UK accountants Hacker Young have suggested
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There is an alternative economic narrative – and it’s coming from the unions
There is talk today of there being no alternative economic narrative. That’s not true. Take this from the Guardian: Britain’s trade unions must build a movement
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Is now the time for an empty property tax?
It’s almost two years since I wrote the following blog, but it seems to me that it is as relevant as ever, which is why I repeat
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Unite Scotland – Economic Brief – Corporation Tax
Unite published the following briefing written by me on corporation reform tax in Scotland this afternoon: What is corporation tax? Corporation tax is the tax due on a company’s
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A Robin Hood Tax is deliverable says IMF
As Owen Tudor at the TUC has noted: The IMF has issued a working paper which explores the practicalities of implementing Financial Transaction Taxes. His analysis
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Fairness and Prosperity
The TUC published a new pamphlet by friend and sometime co-author Howard Reed yesterday. As they said of the pamphlet, which is entitled Fairness and
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The blatant untruth at the core of Conservative corporation tax policy
David Gauke MP, the Tory Exchequer Secretary, and a man for whom I have little regard (a feeling which I know is reciprocated) was speaking at the Oxford
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