Are we ready for a debate on tax?
Saturday, April 6th, 2024Alan Rusbridger, the former editor of the Guardian and now the editor of Prospect magazine, has made the first editorial comment on the Taxing Wealth
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Capital gains should be subject to the same rate of tax as income
Saturday, April 6th, 2024I have posted this video on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok this morning: The transcript is as follows: One of the proposals that I make in
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Spring has really sprung
Saturday, April 6th, 2024I do not recall seeing any clematis open in the garden yesterday. This morning this one was out before seven: Half an hour later, this
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On Instagram
Friday, April 5th, 2024This morning’s video on the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 has seen me start posting on a new platform for me. It is now on Instagram:
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 - the launch video
Friday, April 5th, 2024This video, made by me and my son, Thomas, is an introduction to the Taxing Wealth Report 2024: The transcript is as follows: I wrote
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The launch of the Taxing Wealth Report 2024
Friday, April 5th, 2024The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 is published in its final, complete form, this morning. It seeks to answer the question that every journalist loves to
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Freeports are a threat to free markets and to the wellbeing of the populations of all countries in which they exist
Friday, April 5th, 2024The National newspaper in Scotland has been running what I think to be a very important series on the threats posed by freeports during the
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What a sorry state we are in
Thursday, April 4th, 2024It is less than a year since I put the following quote from my 2011 book, ‘The Courageous State’ on this blog, but having noted
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Is it beyond the wit of our politicians to make up their own minds?
Thursday, April 4th, 2024As has been my habit in recent days, I put up a Twitter poll yesterday. In the light of developments in Gazza, the question that
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