It is almost universally agreed that accountancy is in a mess. Accounts don’t meet users’ needs. Tax authorities have to create extra reports for their
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The cost of government borrowing is falling….and that’s good news. The debt obsessives have less to obsess about when the amount of interest the UK
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If the popular political narrative was to be believed then the national debt would rank high on the list of threats to our well being.
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The ‘killer’ question that any journalists thinks that they can ask a politician who is proposing any new initiative is ‘how are you going to
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Country-by-country reporting has been back in the news of late, because data generated by it has for the first time shown the scale of likely
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A first visit to modern monetary theory: Given the range of issues arising there will be more on this issue. In fact, at least two
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The talk is of tax increases. But is that appropriate? And as an aside, if you have issues that you want to be addressed I
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Understanding the difference between micro and macroeconomics is key to understanding why countries cannot max out the credit card and austerity cannot work, and yet
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The latest video is out: The data I quote comes from the Office for National Statistics. My message is simple: wealth taxes are not politically
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