As The Observer notes this morning: Thousands of homes could lose their energy supplier in the coming months as a result of a financial shock
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The Remaining options
The Observer rates the odds on blocking Brexit as follows this morning: Corbyn-led temporary government Jeremy Corbyn has offered to lead a temporary government tasked
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Tax reform of the day: an investment income surcharge
To continue my series on how to address inequality by changing the UK tax system, this suggestion is, I think one that glaringly obviously needs
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The burden of financialisation: a case study of a Scottish police training centre
Much of what I am noting in this blog comes from a recent submission that John Christensen and Nick Shaxson of the Tax Justice Network have
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Tax reform of the day: cap pension tax relief contributions at 20%
To continue my series on tax reforms, which could go on for a very long time (and I am open to suggestions as to desired
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To support Corbyn, or not?
It would seem to me that whether to support the Corbyn plan for bringing Johnson down, or not, is the only question of relevance to
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Money’s too cheap to mention, and still no Green New Deal
Tax spillovers at the Biarritz Summit
The next G7 summit is in Biarritz at the end of August. The G7 Research Group at the Munk Scool at the University of Toronto
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Tax reform of the day: make the UK main corporation tax rate 25% with a small company rate 20%
As I mentioned yesterday, in my book ‘The Joy of Tax’ I argued that tax was the single best instrument available to any government to
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