We desperately need a Green New Deal and our power elites would rather ignore that fact
Friday, February 23rd, 2024As the Guardian’s morning comment newsletter says in its introduction this morning: Houses in the UK are some of the oldest and least energy efficient
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HMRC have deliberately taken tax collection out of our communities and the price that we are paying for that is very high
Wednesday, February 21st, 2024I am continuing to work on data from HM Revenue & Customs on its accounts, the tax gap and other issues related to its management
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Why we need to transform the education of accounting undergraduates in the UK
Wednesday, February 21st, 2024I am speaking at an online conference on accounting at South Bank University this morning. My theme will be the need for reform of undergraduate
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Why can HM Revenue & Customs restate its account for the tax gap fourteen times in fourteen years?
Tuesday, February 20th, 2024I am now working on the last major section of the Taxing Wealth Report. This refers to the administration of HMRC. My focus was initially
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Fascism is much closer than we ever imagined
Saturday, February 17th, 2024The world is in agreement that Alexei Navalny was murdered. The only surprise is that, unlike most of Putin’s opponents who seem to suffer this
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The reality of fiscal headroom is that the UK has large amounts of it available - but only if the governmment is willing to spend more
Friday, February 16th, 2024I had discussions with other economists yesterday, in which issues like fiscal headroom were on the table for debate. I wrote about this issue very
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Sunak promoted everything that created a recession. It is his, by design.
Friday, February 16th, 2024The National newspaper in Scotland asked me for a reaction to the news that the UK was in recession yesterday. I had precisely fifteen minutes
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What is the value of spotting that we are in recession after it has happened?
Thursday, February 15th, 2024As the Office for National Statistics has announced this morning: UK gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have fallen by 0.3% in Quarter 4
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Of ‘fiscal rules’ and ‘fiscal headroom’ and other such fantastic things
Thursday, February 15th, 2024The FT had a report yesterday that suggested that: Jeremy Hunt is considering slashing billions of pounds from public spending plans to fund pre-election tax
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