Prospect: Labour’s £92bn prize
Thursday, April 11th, 2024The Guardian is it the only outlet to have an article by me on the Taxing Wealth Report over the last day or so. So
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The Guardian agrees: Labour's tax problems can’t be solved by a cosy coterie of old insiders
Thursday, April 11th, 2024This comment was posted on the blog overnight by long term occasional commentator Jonathan: Interestingly, now the Guardian have discovered your Taxing Wealth Report it
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Labour is outsourcing policy to The City establishment
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024An old friend, Ian Fraser, who wrote a great book on the failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland, reminded me of one of my
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Why has Rachel Reeves appointed as her tax adviser a person who has said that tax is extortion and told parliament that he was not too worried about small businesses not paying their taxes?
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024Rachel Reeves has appointed Sir Edward Troup to be one of her four new tax advisers. He might be a former boss of HM Revenue
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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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Rachel Reeves is looking in the wrong place if she’s trying to solve the tax gap
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024I posted this video on TikTok this afternoon: @richardjmurphy Rachel Reeves and the tax gap Rachel Reeves has suddenly decided that she will close the
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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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