Taxing multinational companies - the right way
Wednesday, May 26th, 2021A regular commentator on this blog asked yesterday: Given the blatant abuse by some multinational companies of their capacity to move their taxable gains for
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Why we need a corporation tax
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021I noted some reaction, especially on Twitter yesterday, in response to my comments on the need to support Biden’s minimum corporation tax plan. The claim
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It's time for R&D tax relief to go, to be replaced with some old fashioned grants to back the innovation we really need
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021The FT has noted this morning that: The UK government’s £7.3bn research and development tax credit system is failing to deliver significant additional spending by
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So you thought it was all over? Government borrowing says otherwise
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021This is from data published by the Office for National Statistics this morning on public sector borrowing in April 2021: Borrowing in April was £32
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Will the Scottish banks leave Scotland after independence?
Saturday, May 22nd, 2021This is a guest post from, Dr Tim Rideout of the Scottish Currency Group, with whose work many here will be familiar: It is regularly
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The signs of an economic car-crash as the economy tries to reopen are growing
Saturday, May 22nd, 2021The FT noted yesterday that Europe might be heading for its strongest economic growth for 15 years right now. I confess I was not surprised,
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We have to hope that the Fed, Bank of England and ECB continue to believe in fiscal support and low-interest rates. The alternative is an economic disaster.Â
Wednesday, May 19th, 2021Martin Wolf weighed in on the inflation debate in the FT yesterday. Having had his customary dig at modern monetary theory, on which it seems
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We need to tax millionaires more
Tuesday, May 18th, 2021The Guardian has reported this morning that: A group calling themselves the Patriotic Millionaires have gathered outside the homes Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man,
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The Tories are undermining our tax system to further their aim of undermining the state
Monday, May 17th, 2021The Tories have some very strange relationships with tax given that it is tax that permits their exercise of power, which is much of what
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