Rachel Reeves has laid out her plan for a nightmare five years of Labour government this morning.
Friday, September 22nd, 2023People often tell me that I am wrong about Labour. They say that once it is in office it will deliver everything that I want.
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Reforming the administration of corporation tax in the UK might raise at least £6 billion of tax a year
Friday, September 22nd, 2023I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will together make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this note, I suggest that
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 website
Friday, September 22nd, 2023The time has come to draw attention to the website that I have created for the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. You can find this here.
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024: capping ISA contributions to £100,000 in a lifetime
Wednesday, September 20th, 2023I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will together make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this note, I
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Sunak will retreat on climate change, with Labour's tacit consent. It will be for those who will be impacted to protest.
Wednesday, September 20th, 2023As the Guardian has noted: Rishi Sunak is planning to row back on some of the government’s net zero policies that impose a direct cost
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One of the Taxing Wealth Report recommendations could solve the pay problems in the UK's care home system
Tuesday, September 19th, 2023I noted this in The Guardian this morning: Care home bosses are demanding the next government funds a 44% pay rise for frontline staff to
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024: the UK needs better estimation of its tax gap to prevent the illicit accumulation of wealth
Tuesday, September 19th, 2023I have this morning published the next note in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 series. In it, I suggest that it is essential that the UK
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We are going to need to talk about taxing wealth in 2024: no serious political debate can avoid the issue
Monday, September 18th, 2023Martin Wolf wrote this in an article in the FT yesterday. I have edited it lightly without changing the meaning: The British must not get
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Our whole pension edifice is built on sand, and no one seems to be paying much attention to that fact
Friday, September 15th, 2023There is an almost incoherent discussion of pensions and the merits of the triple lock arrangement that currently protects the value of the state old
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