As was discussed in the introduction to this section on Tax and Society within the Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) project, tax has at least six
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Adding value: a tale from Stonehenge
I love this photo of the top of one of the standing stones at Stonehenge, featured in the Guardian this morning. The two ‘Lego-like’ knobs
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Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) : The inspiration
I conceived of the Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) project after very recently re-reading Keynes’ ‘How to pay for the war’. As James Keenan has noted
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Tax After Coronavirus (TACs): Why we tax – an introduction
If most people are asked why a government imposes taxes within its jurisdiction they will answer that this is done to fund a government’s spending.
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The Office for Budget Responsibility is living in a little fantasy world all of their own – and is deeply misleading us all as a result
The Office for Budget Responsibility says of itself that: The OBR was created in 2010 to increase the transparency of the public finances and to
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Coronavirus excess deaths are likely to be more than double the government reported numbers
The ONS data on deaths to 3 April has been issued this morning. A summary of the overall data, which is what matters is: I
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The right wing have begun their attack on the most vulnerable, who they want to pay for coronavirus
It was almost inevitable that the right-wing think tanks would start clamouring for austerity by delivering attacks on the most vulnerable in society as soon
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The Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) project
The Tax After Coronavirus (TACs) project is a new initiative that I am creating which will be published in the first instance as a series
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Bailouts should be subject to conditions, and most especially so in the case of bigger businesses
The FT has noted that: Muriel Pénicaud, the French labour minister, has personally called the bosses of big French companies to persuade some of them
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