Unreasonable people
Thursday, November 1st, 2007Francine Mckenna (whose blog is a “must read” for anyone with interest in the Big 4) tells today of her recent application to serve on
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Someone has to say we need more progressive taxation
Monday, September 17th, 2007Thankfully the Lib Dems have had the courage to do so. As the Guardian has noted: The Liberal Democrats will highlight Britain’s widening wealth gap
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The domicile rule costs £4.3 billion
Sunday, September 9th, 2007I was challenged when recording Hecklers for Radio 4 recently to estimate the tax lost as a result of the UK’s domicile rule. And I
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Where did the non-dom money come from?
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007The HMRC accounts for 2006-07 suggested on page 49 that the Expat team had increased their yield from enquiries in the year to £102 million,
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Brown’s Decade: Was it taxing?
Thursday, June 14th, 2007Gordon Brown’s record of holding office as the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer for a decade is an extraordinary political achievement. In taxation terms such
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Could HMRC say no to a local income tax?
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007I don’t usually give much time to the Telegraph, but noticed a story there that suggests the Lib Dems and Scottish Nationalists are likely to
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The UK's domicile laws are illegal
Friday, March 2nd, 2007Tax Research LLP has today published a new report in association with the Tax Justice Network in the UK. Entitled ‘National Origin, Equality and the
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Moderation
Monday, December 11th, 2006When I began this blog I did not anticipate that many people would comment upon it. I also expected that those that would do so
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PWC, a threat to the world's poor
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006Sorry to bang on about the big firms of accountants this week – but their PR departments seem to be in tax overdrive mode at
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