Twitter still has the power to deliver
Monday, February 12th, 2024I know many readers of this blog do not like Twitter, or X. But it still has the power to deliver. Two of my Tweets
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The fact that 30% of the UK population have savings of less than £1,000 is not their fault
Monday, February 12th, 2024The Resolution Foundation published a report this morning which suggests that at least 30% of UK households have savings of less than £1,000 and are,
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Tax and money flows within the economy
Monday, February 12th, 2024This post is the third of the three that relate to the economic ideas underpinning the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. The first was on tax
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Labour's ideological vacuum
Sunday, February 11th, 2024As Larry Elliott has noted in The Observer today: After last week’s emasculation of its green prosperity plan, [Labour’s] storyline has changed. It now reads:
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‘Revenue’ means to come back. Tax revenue quite literally recovers money already spent
Sunday, February 11th, 2024I noticed part of an old post of mine being cited on Twitter yesterday. It was as follows: This is fascinating. What it shows is the
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Rishi Sunak's tax for 2022/23: a Taxing Wealth Report 2024 case study
Saturday, February 10th, 2024As has been widely reported in the media, Rishi Sunak’s tax return for 2022/23 was published yesterday. The data as published by his accountants has
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Labour is claiming that £28 billion of investment in climate change a year is not possible. But that's not true. That's Starmer's choice.
Friday, February 9th, 2024I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Labour says it cannot now afford to spend £28 billion a year to deliver the investment in
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Labour abandons hope
Thursday, February 8th, 2024After what appears to have been an eternity of dithering today, Labour is finally announcing that it has abandoned its pledge to spend £28 billion
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The Taxing Wealth Report – an update
Thursday, February 8th, 2024I have this morning published what I think will be the pre-penultimate section of the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 this morning, dealing with necessary changes
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