Oh Dear, Rutger Bregman At Davos Is Ignorant Of Hauser’s Law – High Tax...
We've an historian, Rutger Bregman, sounding off at Davos and there's a certain problem with his point about high tax rates. For he seems...
All Mouth No Trousers On Tax
Let's do a sanity check on taxpaying.
People on the Right of the political spectrum tend to believe in small government and low taxes, and...
Is the BBC Worth The Money?
The BBC will no longer be free to pensioners, they will soon need to pay the £155 a year Licence Fee that every other...
Julian Richer Simply Doesn’t Understand Tax – Despite His New Taxwatch Plan
I do always find it so amusing when people start whining about the tax system in the UK. Because it is within those whines...
The Mail Is Dismally Ignorant Of Corporation Tax
The Mail on Sunday tells us that some alarming number of companies in the FTSE100 aren't in fact paying tax in the UK. Which...
As Scotland Is Finding Out – Higher Income Tax Rates Can Mean Less Income...
The basic contention of the Laffer Curve is that a tax rate can be "too high", meaning that a lower rate would collect more...
Laffer Curve Spotted In The Wild – Stamp Duty Rises Produce Less Revenue
One of the more contentious economic assertions is that of the Laffer Curve. The idea that tax rates can be so high that they...
70% Marginal Tax Rates Don’t Mean The Rich Pay More Tax
Varied - Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, you know, the brain dead end of the Democrats - seem to think that if...
Huzzah For Stupid Ideas – Lifetime Income Super Tax
Again to question that expansion of the universities. Those who wouldn't be allowed to lecture at the decent ones - the only ones when...
The BBC and Tax Dodging – How the Conversation Changes
An interesting little tale about how the conversation changes upon a subject in the media. We'll not claim all of the credit here, but...