Pragmatic approaches to taxing income from wealth more can always raise more money than a wealth tax
Thursday, May 2nd, 2024I was asked to comment on Brazil’s proposal for a global 2% annual wealth tax on billionaires by a journalist, yesterday. This is what I
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The video project
Tuesday, April 30th, 2024The last couple of days have begun to suggest that the video project that we only began this month might prove to be successful. Whilst
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Tax does not pay for government spending
Monday, April 29th, 2024I posted this video on YouTube this morning. As I wrote in the explanatory note that accompanied it, probably the biggest challenge to understanding how
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Large company accounts are works of fiction
Sunday, April 28th, 2024I have this morning posted this video on YouTube, addressing an issue of accounting and transparency that matters to me. I think the format for
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Penalties on carers make clear that we are being governed by people who do not care
Friday, April 26th, 2024As the Guardian has noted: New figures show more than 150,000 unpaid carers are now facing huge fines for minor rule breaches, as MPs, charities
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Why more government spending can require more tax revenue
Friday, April 26th, 2024I posted this video, which explains why more government spending in the UK is likely to require more tax revenue to be raised, at least
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Scotland’s political problem
Friday, April 26th, 2024The SNP government in Scotland is in trouble. The coalition agreement with the Greens in Scotland (who are a different party to the Greens in
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Freedom from fear
Thursday, April 25th, 2024I posted this video on YouTube this morning: The transcript is as follows: Freedom from fear is one of the things that every politician should
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We need to be awake to nature
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024One of the strangest consequences of running a blog that has quite a high volume of traffic is that I receive a great many press
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