Never mind the quality of the Green New Deal just feel the width
The Green New Deal has another of their little reports out. Essentially saying the same as all of the previous ones. Print more money to spend on all that Caroline Lucas holds dear. But it really does...
View ArticleIn praise of Standard Chartered and their advice on African tax avoidance
The perenially enraged over at Action Aid are today enraged about the way in which Standard Chartered bank gave advice on how to avoid (legally, of course) certain corporate taxes upon investments in...
View ArticleThe Green spectre
I was reading the other day that The Green Party Is The Second Most Popular Party For Young People. This popularity surge is probably not that surprising really – we see increased environmental...
View ArticleEconomic Nonsense: 5. Taxes should be increased to fund necessary spending
Taxation changes behaviour. Taxes on goods and services makes them more expensive, and in most cases people buy fewer of them as a result. Taxation on incomes makes work less attractive, motivating...
View ArticleEconomic Nonsense: 9. International agreement on tax rates would benefit...
International agreement on tax rates would hurt everyone except those who collect and spend taxes. Governments have little restraint on the degree to which they can take the money earned by their...
View ArticleEconomic Nonsense: 19. Corporation tax is paid by businesses
It is always attractive to the political classes to impose taxes on business so that people can benefit from the spending this makes possible. Corporation Tax is one of these whose name suggests that...
View ArticleEconomic Nonsense: 21. Inheritance tax is needed to prevent some having an...
This question carries the assumption that life is some sort of race in which we are all struggling to outdo everyone else. Life is not like that. We are not racing against others because we all have...
View ArticleOne tax hike I’ll be hoping for in the Budget (and some cuts as well)
Back home in Ireland, it’s said that asking for directions will often get you the reply, “I wouldn’t start from here.” We might say the same thing about the UK’s tax code. Nobody drawing up a tax...
View ArticleMultinational taxes: what do politicians know?
This election has ratcheted up the calls for Starbucks and other multinationals to pay more taxes on their British revenues. Politicians give no indication of how they will achieve that; one suspects...
View ArticleDon’t campaign against tax havens: they are good for us
Thanks to faulty headline-grabbing propaganda, most people think tax havens are outrageous places in which tens of billions of pounds are being stored offshore, denying UK citizens valuable tax revenue...
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