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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What videos should be shared here?
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024Our first experiments with broader publishing of materials related to the Taxing Wealth Report has produced some surprising results. The YouTube videos on this report
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Both the Tories and Labour are pro-market extremists now
Sunday, April 7th, 2024This item was posted on LinkedIn last night by Dr Raj Thamotheram, with whom I have been in occasional contact for quite a long time.
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Are we ready for a debate on tax?
Saturday, April 6th, 2024Alan Rusbridger, the former editor of the Guardian and now the editor of Prospect magazine, has made the first editorial comment on the Taxing Wealth
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Capital gains should be subject to the same rate of tax as income
Saturday, April 6th, 2024I have posted this video on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok this morning: The transcript is as follows: One of the proposals that I make in
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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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Freeports are a threat to free markets and to the wellbeing of the populations of all countries in which they exist
Friday, April 5th, 2024The National newspaper in Scotland has been running what I think to be a very important series on the threats posed by freeports during the
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Gordon Brown's answer to poverty in the UK is to appeal to charity. When Labour looks like it will have a massive majority soon that is pathetic.
Friday, March 29th, 2024Gordon Brown, the former Labour Prime Minister, had an article in the Guardian newspaper yesterday that plumbed new depths for the Labour Party. Brown acknowledged
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