The finances of the UK's European Super League clubs are not pretty - and suggest that the move is all about frightened owners desperately trying to cover their risks
Tuesday, April 20th, 2021I thought I would have a quick look at the income statements of the six clubs from the UK who have said that they will
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The Counterbalance: The European System of Monopoly . . . and how to fix it
Tuesday, April 20th, 2021I share this third edition of The Counterbalance, which is from a project that I warmly welcome onto the campaigning scene: Welcome to the third
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If we’re to beat Covid 19 we might need hypothecated taxes- which is something I never expected to say
Tuesday, April 20th, 2021I have always resisted the idea of hypothecated taxation. There are very good reasons for doing so. First, claims of hypothecation are usually a sham
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Why are accounting regulators denying shareholders the information that they want?
Monday, April 19th, 2021I have already mentioned the contempt that one elite has for competition and markets this morning, so now let me mention another. It is a
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The break away football league is all about the corruption of markets that the Tories have done so much to assist. Are they really going to oppose it now?
Monday, April 19th, 2021This is the morning when the arrogance of elites appears to stand out. Most obviously this is apparent in the overnight announcement that 12 of
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MMT is far from being a theory, it is a battle tested alternative to debt and austerity based economics
Sunday, April 18th, 2021EDITORIAL NOTE: Following comments posted and discussions I have had it is clear that a quote included in this post as I originally published it
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There is a flaw in the Biden tax plan that has to be addressed if it's going to work, and that's in the accounting
Friday, April 16th, 2021The tax justice movement is, unsurprisingly, keen on the Biden tax plan. What Biden is proposing is fairly straightforward. First, he is suggesting that a
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Another day, and some more corruption
Friday, April 16th, 2021I posted this in Twitter last night: If Hancock was an auditor this would probably end his career. So why doesn’t it as a cabinet
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All tax competition is harmful
Wednesday, April 14th, 2021Back in 1998 the OECD, the Paris based organisation that seeks to set the rules for cooperation on world tax, issued a document with this
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