The Guardian rightly points out the scandal of there being at least 700,000 empty properties in the UK this morning. I first addressed this issue
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According to The Telegraph, a Taxpayers' Alliance campaign to have national insurance renamed Eranings Tax is likely to be successful. A number if, inevitable thoughts
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I am amused to note that RBS has finally decided the time has come for it to get its core business right. I am also
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I think the time has come to end any debate on whether or not Chris Moyles knew what his tax avoidance scheme involved. He unambiguously
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Attached to some version so the tax tribunal hearing decision that ruled that Chris Moyles had unsuccessfully sought to avoid paying tax was this diagram
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Many are saying on this blog and elsewhere that the arrangements in the Moyles case were tax evasion, not avoidance. I think what the case
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I gave not redacted full decision in what will now inevitably be called the Chris Moyles tax case. I have read parts. It seems that
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Late last year I published an analysis of the rapidly declining average declared income of the UK's self-employed people. The trend was profoundly marked in
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As the Guardian report this morning: People who have been stripped of benefits could be charged by the government for trying to appeal against the decision to
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