The Taxing Wealth Report and tax justice
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024I posted this video on YouTube this morning: The transcript is as follows: Right at the very heart of the Taxing Wealth Report is the
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We need the tax system to work, which means Rachel Reeves will have to do a lot more than she's planning
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024The Guardian has reported that: Labour has appointed an expert panel to advise the party on ways to tackle tax avoidance following its plan to reap
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Labour should establish an independent office for tax responsibility
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024I am quoted by Larry Elliott in the Guardian this afternoon on the tax gap: The accountant and tax expert Richard Murphy says: “Reeves could
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Rachael Reeves will not close the tax gap by looking overseas. Pretending that the problem is elsewhere is no longer realistic. It's in her own backyard.
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024Rachel Reeves is making an announcement today on how she will plug the gap that she thinks exists in her financial plans as a consequence
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Farewell to the ICAEW
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024Amongst the things that I did not predict would happen during the course of 2024 was that I would leave the Institute of Chartered Accountants
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Thames Water is bust: our politicians need to deal with it
Sunday, April 7th, 2024This morning, the business media is obsessed with the fact that Thames Water has failed to make a payment due on debt owed by its
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 - the launch video
Friday, April 5th, 2024This video, made by me and my son, Thomas, is an introduction to the Taxing Wealth Report 2024: The transcript is as follows: I wrote
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Freeports are a threat to free markets and to the wellbeing of the populations of all countries in which they exist
Friday, April 5th, 2024The National newspaper in Scotland has been running what I think to be a very important series on the threats posed by freeports during the
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It takes considerable inability to get so much, so wrong, so often, but the Bank of England has achieved it.
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024As the Guardian reports this morning: [Retail] industry figures show prices rose at an annual rate of 1.3% in March, down from a rate of
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