If PWC want more legitimate tax systems this is what they need to do
Friday, May 13th, 2022I spoke this week at a conference organised by PricewaterhouseCoopers on the legitimacy of tax systems. The conference was held under the Chatham House rule
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What is a tax spillover, and why does it matter?
Friday, May 13th, 2022I was one of 47 academics at City, University of London who had a case study submitted by that university to the Research Excellence Framework
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We have a government intent on destroying democracy that is going to strangle it by the encouragement of growing indifference to its fate
Wednesday, May 11th, 2022It is very hard to explain how bad the Queen’s Speech was. The general presumption is that the government is competent. As a result anyone
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How to beat tax cheating oligarchs
Tuesday, May 10th, 2022I addressed a meeting of the European Parliament sub-committee on Tax Matters today, addressing the issue of how Russian oligarchs abuse tax systems to avoid
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MMT and tax: the reality is that there is much more to be done on this issue
Tuesday, May 10th, 2022I was trolled from the left and right on modern monetary theory and tax yesterday. The right wing turned up here. The left used Twitter.
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The government is stressing households to the limit and beyond when it should be taking the strain
Monday, May 9th, 2022On a morning when I am not overly endowed with time the standout story in the media this morning is about growing poverty. The FT
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Trevor Noah on why we can't tax billionaires - and why I suggest we can
Sunday, May 8th, 2022I like Trevor Noah and the Daily Show in the USA. This is worth watching: This from Trevor Noah on taxing billionaires is … pretty
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Inflation is unnecessary - and is being fuelled by a government that's refusing to stop it. Why is that?
Friday, May 6th, 2022I have just posted this thread on Twitter, dealing with how the government could keep prices down, but ignoring other ways they could help people
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Why is no one talking about Covid as a direct cause of inflationary pressure, and about how to address it?
Thursday, May 5th, 2022There have been many suggestions made as to the cause of the current inflation in our economy, a number of them by me. Two things
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