Labour is offering us austerity, recession and economic failure as its new economic policy
Wednesday, July 13th, 2022Labour Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to make a speech at the Resolution Foundation today. According to the Guardian: Reeves will say a Labour government
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We need a windfall tax on banks - now
Wednesday, July 13th, 2022This is from the FT this morning: Spain became the largest eurozone country to impose a windfall tax on banks in a sign of European
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A little accounting for tax
Tuesday, July 12th, 2022My long-term critic, Tim Worstall, had a go at me on the Adam Smith Institute blog yesterday for comments I made that were published in
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Tackling tax abuse by the wealthy matters
Tuesday, July 12th, 2022I spend a lot of time criticising the management of HM Revenue & Customs, and for good reason, in my opinion. So, I should give
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Could the Tory leadership election march their party to electoral oblivion? I have to live in hope
Tuesday, July 12th, 2022Long ago I was told to stop reading what anyone said to see what their opinion was. Knowing the issue that they were meant to
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Government is not an economic black hole as Tories seem to think: it’s essential to our national well-being
Monday, July 11th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: There is a real problem amongst the hopeful Tory party leaders. Not one of them seems to
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The media round
Monday, July 11th, 2022I seem to have had a busy media weekend. Quotes on Nadhim Zahawi’s tax appeared in the Guardian and FT. Discussion on Apple’s tax affairs
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Tory leadership hopefuls are playing a game of fantasy tax cuts and we'll all pay a heavy price for that
Sunday, July 10th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Tax cuts are in the news as Tory party leadership candidates are talking about them as if
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Questions for Tory Party leadership candidates
Saturday, July 9th, 2022I have just published this on Twitter: Questions for Tory Party leadership candidates, a thread to tease out what they really think: 1. Why did
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