Taxing Wealth Report 2024: reintroducing close company rules for income and corporation tax could raise at least £3 billion of tax a year
Friday, November 3rd, 2023I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this latest note, I
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More meaningful accounts are to return to the public record
Friday, November 3rd, 2023As AccountingWEB (of which I was an editor for a number of years) has reported this week: Plans for tighter rules over how companies report
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How many lives would have been improved in 2020 if No. 10 had been more woke?
Thursday, November 2nd, 2023I listened to the evidence given by Helen MacNamara, the former deputy cabinet secretary who was in office as the Covid crisis developed, given to
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What if the oil price goes to $150 a barrel?
Tuesday, October 31st, 2023The World Bank has suggested that in the worst-case scenario, the conflict between Israel and Gaza could increase global oil prices by such a significant
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Sticking plasters no longer work. The wounds in our society are far too deep.
Monday, October 30th, 2023As The Guardian reports this morning: England’s housing crisis will push many local authorities into bankruptcy as the increasing cost of emergency accommodation for thousands
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Quantitative tightening needs to stop now
Sunday, October 29th, 2023My friend and Green New Deal colleague Larry Elliott had an article in the Guardian last week on what he described as the return of
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Taxing Wealth Report 2024: reforming the rates at which inheritance tax is charged
Friday, October 27th, 2023I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this latest note, I
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The water industry is bust: it is time that Ofwat said so
Friday, October 27th, 2023The FT has reported this morning that: UK regulator Ofwat has warned about the financial health of four water suppliers in England: Thames Water, Southern
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Labour U-turns in favour of vested interests, yet again
Thursday, October 26th, 2023As the Guardian has noted this morning: Labour has U-turned on its pledge to create a Scottish-style right to roam in the English countryside if
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