I love this opening paragraph from George Monbiot in The Guardian today: It is hard to believe today, but the prevailing ethos among the educated
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Out of steam
This is fair warning: I have run out of steam and blogging is going to have low priority over the next few days. I have
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Who really pays the tax on rents?
I was fascinated by this comment in The Guardian, published this morning: Warnings by landlords that taxes on buy-to-let would cripple the property market, driving down supply
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Murphy v Laffer in International Tax Review
I still do not have the video of the above debate, which took place a couple of weeks ago at the OECD. However, the International
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Coffee break radio
I was called yesterday morning by Talk Radio and asked if I would take part in a discussion on whether or not the IFS were
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Tax rises? Bring them on as we will all be better off
The UK is a low tax nation. I point this out because the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said that if we want to balance
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The Neanderthals are winning
The fact that accountancy firm Grant Thornton is to part company with its CEO, Sacha Romanovitch, has made headline news. No doubt that is in
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The wreckers are getting their way
I am in very many ways surprised that the EU is still negotiating Brexit. Last December the only thing that has ever been agreed during
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The data needs of Public Accounts Committees
I was asked to give a talk to members of the Public Accounts Committees of about ten countries yesterday based on a paper I wrote
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