I don’t often write a blog just to provide a link to another blog, but I’ll break with tradition on this occasion. The Fair Tax
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For 300,000 of the rich a tax break. For 300,00 children poverty
According to the FT: Former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson on Wednesday night urged George Osborne to cut the top income tax rate to 40p in
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Selling the Green Investment Bank is the act of a cowardly politician
The FT’s reported that: The UK is poised to announce the sale of a large stake in the Green Investment Bank, set up by the
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The big tax question on Amazon remains
The Guardian has reported that: Amazon’s booming UK business paid just £11.9m of tax last year, while the online retailer’s Luxembourg unit took £5.3bn of
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Child poverty stats are not collected for their own sake David Cameron
The Guardian has reported that: David Cameron is looking to revive plans to change the way that child poverty is measured, in advance of figures
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The June Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network
In the Tax Justice Network’s June 2015 Podcast: racketeering, money laundering and bribery in international football; the FIFA scandal demonstrates everything that’s wrong with global
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Can we use some economic logic please?
No one knows what the short-term outcome of the negotiations between the EU and Greece will be. I won’t even guess. What I do instead
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When an economy is down you don’t kick it
The Greek economy is down. Everyone agrees. And I thought everyone agreed now that if you’re going to raise taxes it is when the sun
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Getting priorities wrong
This was in the Morning Star this morning, based on a quick conversation yesterday: DAVID Cameron has got his priorities all wrong, Richard Murphy told
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