Why does the average higher rate tax payer get more subsidy for their pension savings each year than anyone on Universal Credit is paid?
Tuesday, April 16th, 2024I published this video on TikTok this morning. As I noted on Twitter: Why does the average higher rate tax payer get more subsidy for
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Are those calling for more defence spending simply trying to stoke inflation?
Tuesday, April 16th, 2024According to historian Niall Ferguson, we are, apparently, incredibly close to the onset of World War III. There is a land war in Ukraine. There
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Prospect: Labour’s £92bn prize
Thursday, April 11th, 2024The Guardian is it the only outlet to have an article by me on the Taxing Wealth Report over the last day or so. So
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The Guardian agrees: Labour's tax problems can’t be solved by a cosy coterie of old insiders
Thursday, April 11th, 2024This comment was posted on the blog overnight by long term occasional commentator Jonathan: Interestingly, now the Guardian have discovered your Taxing Wealth Report it
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Capital gains should be subject to the same rate of tax as income
Saturday, April 6th, 2024I have posted this video on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok this morning: The transcript is as follows: One of the proposals that I make in
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 - the launch video
Friday, April 5th, 2024This video, made by me and my son, Thomas, is an introduction to the Taxing Wealth Report 2024: The transcript is as follows: I wrote
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The launch of the Taxing Wealth Report 2024
Friday, April 5th, 2024The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 is published in its final, complete form, this morning. It seeks to answer the question that every journalist loves to
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Gordon Brown's answer to poverty in the UK is to appeal to charity. When Labour looks like it will have a massive majority soon that is pathetic.
Friday, March 29th, 2024Gordon Brown, the former Labour Prime Minister, had an article in the Guardian newspaper yesterday that plumbed new depths for the Labour Party. Brown acknowledged
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It's not just Thames Water: the whole of the English water industry is environmentally insolvent
Friday, March 29th, 2024I posted this thread on Twitter last June, but it is just as relevant today: There has been much discussion about the likely failure of
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