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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The case for wealth taxation in one graph
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 chance to review international tax architecture seems to come about once a century and should not be ducked
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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In the interests of honest, fairness, business and the services we all depend upon the time has come to close the tax gap
It would be all too easy to dismiss anything Chris Huhne writes as being from the mind of a man show revealed a less than
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You couldn’t make up Lloyds Bank’s reaction to Osborne
Campaigning against tax havens has worked, but we still have a way to go
In November 2011 I worked with International Tax Review to leak that the UK’s Crown Dependencies were going to sign what have been called ‘son of
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The Mail can’t even tell the truth about the prevailing hegemonic thinking
Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, has written in the Guardian this morning. It’s a rant, and a rather nasty rant, as might be
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The fundamental flaw with right wing economic thinking
A commentator on this blog highlighted in a few words the fundamental flaw in right wing thinking on economic management overnight when he or she
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HMRC’s new tax gap report: a work of fiction and guess work
HM Revenue & Customs have published this year’s tax gap report. If anything these reports get more ludicrous by the year. The methodology – much
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