I was asked recently by an email correspondent if a government that uses taxes to control inflation will always end up taxing the middle class
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Why Rachel Reeves is making a mess of things
I was invited onto LBC Radio this morning to discuss whether we needed a Budget. Presenter Matthew Wright, who seems to be keen to have
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Economic questions: the Thomas Piketty question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Should we tax the rich
I was sent this video to review by its creator this week. I know who he is. I offered comments to him, but also asked
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Gary Stevenson and the failure of the left
As readers here will know, the weekend before last, Gary Stevenson admitted that he did not know how to create a wealth tax and would
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The TUC says the public support higher taxes on wealth
The TUC published this press release yesterday, and I am going to share it as they published it, because I think it is interesting enough
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Gary Stevenson is right: we need tax expertise to tackle wealth
Gary Stevenson said on his YouTube channel yesterday that: “Correct implementation on tax policy is a job of experts and government and civil service. It
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Wealth series 13: Should the UK bring back rent controls?
We talk about food poverty and fuel poverty, but almost never about rent poverty. Yet rent is now the biggest driver of inequality in Britain.
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The Taxing Wealth Report in The Guardian
The Guardian’s letter page this morning has two responses to an article by Dr Faiza Shaheen, who is now the director of Tax Justice UK,
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