The Tax Research videos
Tuesday, September 15th, 2020I began making videos with Mark Cooney of Spotted in Ely about three months ago, and this list of those we’ve made has grown pretty
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Scotland has to choose modern monetary theory
Monday, August 31st, 2020As is, I think, known by most readers if this blog, Larry Elliott, who has been the economics editor of The Guardian for decades, has
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Labour isn’t just failing Scotland with its denial on the likelihood of Scottish independence: it’s failing the rest of the UK as well
Sunday, August 30th, 2020I am an instinctive nationalist. I strongly suspect that my Irish roots have much to do with this. I have known where my instincts on
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Why is GERS CRAp?
Saturday, August 29th, 2020I was recording a pile of videos yesterday and it just seemed the right time to record a Saturday special on my theme of the
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Wee Ginger Dug, and me
Friday, August 28th, 2020I spent last evening talking to Wee Ginger Dug – or, rather, Paul Kavanagh who blogs, writes and podcasts under that name. We did, perhaps
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Scotland's problem is not that its taxes are too low, but that its spending is just not big enough
Friday, August 28th, 2020George Kerevan has an article on Bella Caledonia in which he claims: His argument is: Is there anything new to say about the latest GERS
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The Scottish subsidy to London should stop now
Friday, August 28th, 2020I wrote this tweet yesterday: The 2009 financial crisis was made in London. #GERS makes clear that it’s Scotland that’s been subsidising the cost of
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It's simply not credible that Scotland has a deficit bigger than anywhere else in Europe, by a long way
Thursday, August 27th, 2020I am grateful to Martin MacDonald who posted this tweet: To which he appended this chart: Does anyone smell a rat? Could that rat just
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Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland is the usual fabrication, whilst hinting at how badly treated Scotland has been
Wednesday, August 26th, 2020The Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) statement for the year to March 2020 has now been published. It would take a stronger will to
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