Tax abuse meets the glossary
Saturday, August 19th, 2023I realised that the glossary was missing some key entries yesterday. As a result, I have added three new items: Tax arbitrage Tax arbitrage refers
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Taxing wealth more
Friday, August 18th, 2023You might have missed yesterday’s editorial on inflation in the Guardian. This said: Why should ordinary households be made poorer when a few groups operating
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Microsoft has still not resolved its 2004 tax affairs
Friday, August 18th, 2023I was first involved in writing about Microsoft’s tax affairs in November 2005 when work I did was quoted in the Wall Street Journal (paywall).
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Britian is not bust: it is just grossly unfair
Sunday, August 13th, 2023I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Will Hutton has an article in The Observer this morning saying that Britain is bust. It isn’t.
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We need to raise a lot more in tax from the wealthy but that does not convince me that we need a wealth tax
Saturday, August 12th, 2023I am aware that my old friend, Howard Reed, has produced the data for the TUC’s proposed new wealth tax. As the TUC say: The
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The staggering cost of pension tax relief for the wealthiest people in the UK
Friday, August 11th, 2023I was working on a wide range of data on the cost of pension tax reliefs yesterday as part of the project I am working
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The UK government's 'bung' to our commerical banks: additional data
Thursday, August 10th, 2023Before deciding to publish the research that I had undertaken on the amount paid by the Bank of England to the UK’s commercial banks on
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Banks are deeply misunderstood, including by bankers and, most especially, it would seem, by the FT
Wednesday, August 9th, 2023There is a very telling article in the FT this morning that was posted in reaction to Itay’s new windfall tax on bank profits. This
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This country does not need a neoliberal Labour Party
Wednesday, August 9th, 2023I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: I am aware that some people here are quite upset by my comments about Labour. They presume
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