Removing the domicile rule would be a rare smart move by Jeremy Hunt
Thursday, February 29th, 2024As the Guardian reports this morning: Jeremy Hunt is considering scrapping Britain’s non-domiciled tax rules in next week’s budget, it has been reported, in a
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Reforming the organisation, goals and funding of HM Revenue & Customs
Thursday, February 29th, 2024I have this morning published the last substantial chapter of the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. Some introductory and concluding sections have still to be completed,
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Why are government services going down the pan despite high taxation?
Thursday, February 29th, 2024A commentator on this blog asked yesterday: What puzzles and depresses me is the claim on the one hand that we are the most highly
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The energy price cap should, taking raw material costs and general inflation into account, now be about £1,400 a year, but is actually going to be £1,690. The difference is exploitative profit being extracted from us by energy companies.
Friday, February 23rd, 2024Much fuss is being made this morning about the fact that the UK energy price cap is being reduced by approximately 12% to £1,690 per
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We really do need to wake up to the fact that theocratic fascism is threatening us all
Friday, February 23rd, 2024I tried to summarise what follows and then decided to share it as it was written by Heather Cox Richardson because nothing I could say
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How long will it be before Labour does a U-turn on its promised reform of workers' rights?
Thursday, February 22nd, 2024One of the few remaining vaguely radical policies to which labour is supposedly committed is the reform of worker’s rights. This is from the front
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HMRC have deliberately taken tax collection out of our communities and the price that we are paying for that is very high
Wednesday, February 21st, 2024I am continuing to work on data from HM Revenue & Customs on its accounts, the tax gap and other issues related to its management
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Why we need to transform the education of accounting undergraduates in the UK
Wednesday, February 21st, 2024I am speaking at an online conference on accounting at South Bank University this morning. My theme will be the need for reform of undergraduate
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Barclays: seeking to maximise profit, whatever the cost
Tuesday, February 20th, 2024As the FT notes this morning, Barclays Bank has announced a reorganization of its business as a result of which: Barclays is … planning to
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