Tax Justice Focus: The Mythbuster edition
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013The latest edition of Tax Justice Focus explores and explodes some of the most persistent and powerful myths in contemporary economics. Earlier this year we teamed up with the New
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The cracked argument for tax havens
Friday, May 10th, 2013This article by Dan Hind and me is just out on the Guardian website. It is the next in the Tax Justice Network / New Economics Foundation
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Last night the Lords voted to privatise the NHS. And this is why
Thursday, April 25th, 2013Last night the Lords approved the regulations that will effectively privatise the NHS, and this diagram from the latest New Economics Foundation / Tax Justice Network mythbuster shows why:
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You know that claim that the private sector's always more efficient han the state? It is just a myth, of course
Thursday, April 25th, 2013The latest New Economics Foundation / Tax Justice Network economic mythbuster is out. It’s featured in the Guardian and on the NEF website. It’s by my good
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Heard that countries should "compete" on tax? Wrong. The mythbuster series continues
Friday, April 19th, 2013The New Economics Foundation / Tax Justice Network mythbusters series has continued with the next one being featured in an article on tax competition in The
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The UK government is not overburdened by debt interest payments. In fact, they're lower than almost ever
Friday, April 5th, 2013The NEF / TJN mythbuster series has got off to a great start with a joint paper by Howard Reed and Tom Clark. In it
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The Economic Mythbusters have arrived: a new NEF / Tax Justice Network joint venture
Friday, April 5th, 2013nef and the Tax Justice Network have paired up top economists and journalists to write a series of guides exploring the truth behind common economic myths. The first mythbuster, prepared
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