Yesterday was an unusual day in UK politics. What the Tories recognised, albeit deeply reluctantly, was that the boundary between the state needed to be
Read the full article…

Government ‘borrowing’ (or money creation as I would prefer to think of it) from April to July this year amounted to £78 billion against an
Read the full article…

Over the weekend I wrote a Tweet that said: I get annoyed when tax professionals say that politics should be taken out of taxation. And
Read the full article…

A little over a week ago The Times published an article noting that John Christensen and I had resigned our associations with the Tax Justice
Read the full article…

Unless the government briefing machine has gone very wrong we are going to see the announcement of 1.25% increases in both employer’s and employee’s national
Read the full article…

Nobody expected a shortage of bed linen in hotels to be a consequence of Brexit. But along with shortages of food, cars, blood testing bottles
Read the full article…

I saw claims published yesterday that national insurance is not regressive. I have to say that I disagree. Based on the analysis I have done
Read the full article…

I have been asked how much additional national insurance might be due in the UK as a whole in each year if all earnings were
Read the full article…

I wrote the blog post that follows this introduction in April 2020. I was anticipating the fact that there would be a furious debate when
Read the full article…