The Tories impose hardship and chaos by choice
Tuesday, December 30th, 2014There are days when even the most cynical person must want to think that Conservative economic and social policy is all about cock up and
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Why won't politicians collect tax that's due?
Wednesday, December 17th, 2014I have often argued about the absurdity if the UK underinvesting in HM Revenue & Customs at cost to us all in terms of lost
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Shuffling deck chairs whilst the economy sinks: a grey budget for older voters
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014I have a few minutes in my afternoon schedule to give a first budget reaction here. It is rare I agree with Mark Littelwood
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All politicians are to blame for the Co-op's failings because they're the failing of banking as a whole
Monday, November 25th, 2013The argument about who is to blame for the C0o-op’s failings continues. With reason Labour and Conservatives blame each other for what has happened. Overall,
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If you ask who small business dislikes more, HMRC or their banks the bankers always win
Monday, November 25th, 2013I spent about 20 years of my career as a practicing chartered accountant, in he process advising many mainly small and medium sized businesses. Most
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We still need the champions for The Courageous State
Friday, October 18th, 2013Edward Luce has written this in the FT this morning: If Harvard Business School did case studies on political incompetence, it should start with the
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Is accountability returning to accounting standard setting?
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013I was delighted to read this in the Telegraph this morning (well, on its web site – I can’t remember the last time I bought
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HMRC's failure: tax avoidance is increasing year by year
Thursday, November 22nd, 2012HMRC has said for the last few years that closing the tax gap is its number one objective. I think that appropriate. The tax gap is
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That Clegg apology - and why he got the economics of it all wrong
Thursday, September 20th, 2012Clegg has apologised. It wasn’t pretty watching. But what was worse, is how wrong he got the apology. Watch it here : sorry, I just can’t
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