In shocking news this morning, a wealthy man – Dan Neidle of Tax Policy Associates, who used to be senior tax partner of Clifford Chance,
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Wealth series 5: What are the wealthy worth?
Taxing the wealthy sounds easy. But what happens when we don’t actually know what they own or what it’s worth? In this fifth video in
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Wealth series 3: Why are the wealthy so wealthy?
In this third video in our series on the wealthy, I explore why the comfortably wealthy in the UK — those with £3 million or
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The wealth series 2: Who are the wealthy?
Just how rich are the wealthy? In this video, I break down official data to show who truly owns Britain’s wealth. From the bottom 10%
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The FT needs to get its head around wealth, and the need to tax it
The Financial Times published an editorial yesterday which revealed more about the priorities of the economic establishment than it probably intended. The FT editorial team
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Do we need the wealthy?
I received this in an email yesterday from the company noted in the text: Nigel Green, CEO of global financial advisory giant deVere Group, has warned
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Wealth Video 1 – what is wealth?
This is the start of my new wealth series. We’re going back to basics — and that means asking what wealth even is. I explain
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The student politics in play on wealth taxation
I noticed this in the FT yesterday: Downing Street has declined to categorically rule out imposing a “wealth tax” on Britain’s richest people after former
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Do we need a wealth tax?
Many people on the UK’s left want a wealth tax. The trouble is that one of those would take years to deliver. Taxing income and
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