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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Ecclestone has been caught: now we need to use the methods that caught him within the UK domestic economy
Friday, October 13th, 2023As almost all of the media report, former Formula 1 impresario Bernie Ecclestone pleaded guilty to tax fraud yesterday. He won’t go to prison: the
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Venture capitalists cannot be taxed on the basis of a non-statutory sweetheart deal: the law must now be applied
Thursday, October 12th, 2023I wrote this Tweet last night after a conversation with Jo Maugham, the tax KC who is the director of the Good Law Project who
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024: abolishing the inheritance tax exemption on some funds retained in pension arrangements at the time of a person's death might raise £1.3 billion a year
Thursday, October 12th, 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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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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We can do better than have a majority Labour government
Wednesday, October 11th, 2023Clare Short was MP for Birmingham Ladywood from 1983 to 2010, and Labour’s secretary of state for the Department for International Development from 1997 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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There has to be a better story to tell
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023I returned to work yesterday, having fulfilled the promise I made to myself to really take last week off, a little blogging apart. I hoped
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