The former Labour leader, Neil Kinnock, has suggested that Labour should follow up its imposition of VAT on private schools by now charging VAT on
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Abolishing the lower rate of national insurance for high-earning employees
I have published the third in my series of recommendations for the reform of the taxation of higher earners and the wealthy this morning. This
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Can Uber afford its tax and wages bills?
As the BBC has just reported: Ride hailing taxi app firm Uber must classify its drivers as workers rather than self-employed, the UK’s Supreme Court
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The UK’s new VAT system on imports has not the slightest chance of working – and keeps honest traders out of the country
The Byline Times is amongst many media organisations reporting one of the most crass consequences of Brexit, so far. As they note (and the whole
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Good Law Project forces HMRC to collect £1.5bn in VAT from Uber
I share this from the Good Law Project, just published: Way back in April 2017, we announced we were going to take on HMRC’s failure to
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HMRC has a lot of explaining to do on its latest tax ‘facts’
HM Revenue & Customs published a ‘factsheet’ on Monday on the supposed success of the ‘Diverted Profits Tax’ (DPT), introduced by George Osborne in 2015
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What to do about VAT?
Some people have noted my criticism of Michael Gove’s plans for a ‘simple sales tax’ to replace VAT and have said that maybe he has
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Gove, VAT and Channel 4 news
I wrote about Michael Gove’s bizarre plan to scrap VAT this morning. It transferred to Channel 4 news this evening, wth credit given, Start at
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Why Michael Gove’s plan to abolish VAT could be a tax increase and help imports
The Tory leadership race really is starting to look like the silly season for policy ideas. Michael Gove’s suggestion that we get rid of VAT
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