Taxing Wealth Report 2024: Reforming inheritance tax business property relief might raise £3.2 billion of tax a year
Monday, October 16th, 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 Bank of England created recession is going to blow every one of Rachel Reeves' plans apart
Friday, October 13th, 2023The Guardian reported yesterday that: The economy has flatlined and only a quarter of the impact from the Bank of England’s 14 consecutive increases in
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Audit failure is not down to any one firm: the whole audit system is designed to fail to suit the interests of big business and their auditors
Thursday, October 12th, 2023As the Guardian reports this morning: Britain’s accounting regulator has fined KPMG a record £21m for audits of Carillion, the builder that imploded in 2018
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We need more taxes from those with wealth: there is no other option available to a future government in need of additional funding
Thursday, October 12th, 2023According to the Guardian this morning, pressure is being brought to bear on Rachel Reeves to impose more taxes on wealth as a way to
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024: introduction to inheritance tax reforms
Wednesday, October 11th, 2023Precisely because I wanted to make clear that raising more funds from those with high incomes and wealth in the UK did not require a
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The Tories might have lost the plot, but the fact is that Starmer still needs to find one, and very quickly
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023There is a slight feeling of a déjà vu about this post. For the second time in a week, I was booked to appear on
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Labour is promoting the household analogy that suggests it will be constrained when in office by a lack of money - and that is not true
Monday, October 9th, 2023Rachel Reeves told The Mirror today that: “I know how hard people work for their money and they see more and more of it go in
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Reeves is promising to fail
Sunday, October 8th, 2023The Labour Party was socialist, once upon a time. This was Clause IV of its constitution as drafted by the Webbs in 1917: To secure
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We needn’t be in managed decline, but we are because neoliberal politicians see no other option
Friday, October 6th, 2023The FT has a headline this morning that says: The article that follows is predictable. The fear is of a backlash against public investment. The
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