You could have a wealth tax raising a few billion or major reforms to existing taxes that could raise £100 billion or more? Which would you prefer if you wanted to tackle inequality?
Wednesday, January 17th, 2024Davos is full of calls for the super-rich to be taxed more. The Patriotic Millionaires are at it. As the Guardian notes: More than 250
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How to manage the supply of public goods
Monday, January 15th, 2024As I noted yesterday, it is not just the Post Office that is failing badly at present; HM Revenue & Customs is as well. As
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It's not just the Post Office that needs reform: HM Revenue & Customs does as well
Sunday, January 14th, 2024I have posted this thread on Twitter this morning: There is justifiable outrage right now about the fact that the Post Office has been able
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Why are HMRC understating the number of Tax Commissioners by 14%?
Saturday, January 13th, 2024An, as yet, unpublished part of the Taxing Wealth Report is on the governance of HM Revenue & Customs, which I have long felt to
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The lessons to learn from Martin Luther King
Wednesday, January 10th, 2024This article to mark Martin Luther King Day in the USA, which is on 15 January, was written by an old friend of mine, Ben
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Are student loan repayments an inverted wealth tax?
Tuesday, January 9th, 2024The Guardian, FT and others have reported this morning on a new report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the cost of student loans,
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What is 'free' about government money creation?
Monday, January 8th, 2024The note has been written by regular commentator Clive Parry, who has been a bond trader for 35 years, as a response to the discussion
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We do not need tax cuts: what we need is more spend and tax. That's our only hope.
Monday, January 8th, 2024The FT reports this morning that: Unpacking that, what Sunak is saying is: The Mail wants tax cuts and he will deliver them. To supposedly
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Labour has almost nothing to do with socialism, and its religion is mediocrity
Saturday, January 6th, 2024Regular reader Ian Lovegrove read the article I wrote on 3 January about Labour’s apparent plans to deliver tax cuts, in which I attacked DSyarmer’s
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