Digital taxes are not the answer to the taxation of companies like Google
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018According to the FT: France and Germany have abandoned EU plans to impose a wide-ranging digital tax on tech companies, in favour of a narrow
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Who really pays the tax on rents?
Wednesday, October 17th, 2018I was fascinated by this comment in The Guardian, published this morning: Warnings by landlords that taxes on buy-to-let would cripple the property market, driving down supply
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Visit by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights to the United Kingdom
Sunday, August 12th, 2018I think it appropriate to draw attention to this call for evidence that many in civil society, as well as concerned individuals, might want to
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Steven Mnuchin has resolved the debate on the incidence of corporation tax
Thursday, October 19th, 2017The FT issued an email last night saying: Steven Mnuchin warns of market fall without tax cuts. The US Treasury secretary warned Congress that US
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Krugman on corporation tax, incidence and the role of tax in tackling market power
Saturday, September 2nd, 2017Paul Krugman wrote an interesting blog on corporate tax incidence a couple of days ago for the New York Times. The essence of his argument
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The end of the US destination based sales tax should also consign Mirrlees to the bin
Friday, July 28th, 2017The FT has reported this morning that Paul Ryan and his key colleagues in the US legislature have abandoned plans to introduce their corporate tax
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Social care has to be paid for: charging capital gains tax on houses on death is a way to do it
Thursday, May 18th, 2017No one knows if they might need social care at some time in their life. I would make no exclusions. It is one of those
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Do workers really pay a company's corporation tax bill?
Thursday, May 11th, 2017The IFS is showing its political colouring in reaction to Labour’s corporation tax plans, suggesting that: All taxes are paid by people and corporation tax is
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Tax haven UK is more likely than you might think
Friday, March 31st, 2017I took part in a seminar organised by CityPERC (City Political Economy Research Centre) yesterday, the them of which was whether Brexit would reproduce Singapore
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