Rachael Reeves will not close the tax gap by looking overseas. Pretending that the problem is elsewhere is no longer realistic. It's in her own backyard.
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024Rachel Reeves is making an announcement today on how she will plug the gap that she thinks exists in her financial plans as a consequence
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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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It is essential that the state regulate the private sector if we are to avoid fascism. It looks as if both Labour and the Tories have abandoned this goal.
Friday, March 29th, 2024In April 1938, President Franklin D Roosevelt sent a message to Congress in which he said: Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths
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Are you a democrat, or not? That is the question that MMT poses, and which everyone needs to answer.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2024This comment/question was put up on the blog this morning by someone called Peter Rodd. I am presuming it is genuine: Enjoy your posts and
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The introduction to the Taxing Wealth Report 2024
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024Introduction Taxing Wealth Report published I have already published a short summary of the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. However, the report also needed an introduction,
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Are HM Revenue & Customs intent on making the right amount of tax as hard as possible?
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024One of my arguments in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 was that HM Revenue & Customs should be transformed to make the UK tax system
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The UK does not have a national debt but does instead offer a range of national savings products
Thursday, March 14th, 2024My evidence to the House of Lords Economic Affairs committee on the sustainability of the UK’s national debt is now available on the parliamentary website;
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We have a tax time bomb waiting to explode in the UK. Is Labour going to let it go off?
Wednesday, March 6th, 2024I have spent much of this afternoon, a) talking to journalists and b) trying to work out how the Budget adds up. The first task
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