I mentioned I had written a programme for tax reform in the UK yesterday, and set out then the principles that guided it. These are
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By their policies shall you know them
The current government has been behind the bedroom tax that has forced tens of thousands of people living into social housing to move home, break
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The objectives of UK tax reform
I’m always reluctant to say I am going to start publishing a part work in case I run out of enthusiasm for the task. But
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Danny Alexander misses the mark
Danny Alexander has announced a review of business rates to report in 2016. That’s a touch optimistic of him: by then I suspect he will
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At least one European finance minister gets Green QE
I am not alone in proposing green quantitative easing. The following, published over the weekend is a very similar argument to mine: Here is what the
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No winner might be what the UK’s democracy needs
There will be no winner in this year’s general election. We all know that. Every political party barring the Labour and Conservative parties know, of
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On Margaret Hodge
I was delighted to have contributed to a Guardian profile of Margaret Hodge published today. This is the relevant bit: Richard Murphy, a campaigner and
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Is Osborne’s growth spurt over?
I confess to having borrowed the following blog from Geoff Tily on the TUC’s Touchstone blog but it seems pretty important to me because it
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Beating European tax abuse the Oxfam way
Oxfam has published its precipitous for beating tax abuse in Europe. They say: Oxfam is calling upon the European institutions, especially the European Commission in
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