I apologise for the delay in moderation on the blog yesterday. This will continue today. A long day of travelling, filming, meetings and taking to
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The US has backed away from a budget crisis for now. The Republican right has been defeated,by all accounts, for now. But only for now.
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I loved this comment from my friend and co-author Howard Reed on the blog this morning: As someone who thinks that the financial industry is
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I am occasionally making FoI requests now. I made one a few weeks ago when I anticipated the new tax gap report from HMRC coming
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Ireland has issued a statement on its international tax strategy. It has to be said much of this is PR and an implausible defence of
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As the Guardian, and many papers, report this morning: Alliance Boots, which became Britain’s biggest private equity buyout in 2007, could have received UK tax bills of
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I’m not claiming to be an expert in the work of Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller who won the Nobel prize for economics
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This graph is from the IMF Fiscal Monitor on tax issued last week: Now tell me there is no case for taxing wealth. And, yes,
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The IMF’s Fiscal Monitor report published last week entitled Taxing Times has to be quoted at length when it comes to the reform of the
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