The Guardian reported yesterday that: The number of super-rich people who live in the UK but pay no tax on their offshore income has fallen
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Everything has changed
It’s a weird political era when the biggest battle in UK politics would appear to be between two men named Dominic. Stand aside Boris. You
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Boosterism debunked
This post by me was on The Conversation, a blog reserved exclusively for academics, today: It looks like Boris Johnson is opting for a novel
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Beware the right wing’s claims on income tax payments: their aim is profoundly anti-democratic
The Institute for Fiscal Studies finding that more UK tax is being paid by a smaller group at the top of the income scale resulted
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The letter I’d write to Michael Gove
Michael Gove has suggested that the EU is not willing to negotiate on Brexit. If I was in Brussels this is the letter I might
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John McDonnell gets Scotland right
John McDonnell appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe yesterday, and somewhat upset his party in Scotland. According to The National (Scotland’s only pro-independence paper): McDonnell told
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The audit profession can refuse clients but they have to accept that this must signal the end of their statutory monopoly
I was senior partner of a firm of accountants throughout my thirties. It helped that I started it, I admit. And I’m not claiming that
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There’s a revolution happening right in front of us and most politicians haven’t even noticed
It’s silly season. I reviewed the news this morning and nothing jumped out as requiring comment, in itself. At the same time the whole news
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The UK government can borrow at record low rates, but don’t expect it to do so
The UK ten year gilt rate – the benchmark for the cost of government borrowing – reached a record low today of less than 0.5%.
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