Labour should establish an independent office for tax responsibility
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024I am quoted by Larry Elliott in the Guardian this afternoon on the tax gap: The accountant and tax expert Richard Murphy says: “Reeves could
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Rachael Reeves will not close the tax gap by looking overseas. Pretending that the problem is elsewhere is no longer realistic. It's in her own backyard.
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024Rachel Reeves is making an announcement today on how she will plug the gap that she thinks exists in her financial plans as a consequence
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What videos should be shared here?
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024Our first experiments with broader publishing of materials related to the Taxing Wealth Report has produced some surprising results. The YouTube videos on this report
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Farewell to the ICAEW
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024Amongst the things that I did not predict would happen during the course of 2024 was that I would leave the Institute of Chartered Accountants
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Wes Streeting is a disgrace
Monday, April 8th, 2024Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has been writing in The Sun and winning its support for his diagnosis for NHS reform. As they note:
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We would all have been better off if the Bank of England had done nothing with interest rates at any time since 2021
Monday, April 8th, 2024The FT posted this on Twitter this morning: The data they used comes from the OECD, which either leaked it or is subject to a
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Apathy might have the biggest turnout whenever the general election comes
Monday, April 8th, 2024It was very easy to look at the news this weekend and think that this country is tired of its government, its politicians, and its
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Thames Water is bust: our politicians need to deal with it
Sunday, April 7th, 2024This morning, the business media is obsessed with the fact that Thames Water has failed to make a payment due on debt owed by its
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Both the Tories and Labour are pro-market extremists now
Sunday, April 7th, 2024This item was posted on LinkedIn last night by Dr Raj Thamotheram, with whom I have been in occasional contact for quite a long time.
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