Dearth and taxes
Paul Frijters suggests it’s time to stop relying on accounting to get the rich and powerful to pay their dues. The Romans extracted tributes from their provinces, such as regular …
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Three steps out of a fix
Rick Rowden offers a trio of measures to overhaul a creaking global financial system Thanks to the historically ambitious scale of their fiscal and monetary policies, most of the rich …
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Changing rules for pubs causing major economic damage
The boss of pub giant Wetherspoon has accused the Government of causing “massive” economic damage over the changing restrictions for his industry. Company chairman Tim Martin called for measures to …
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Six companies made £16 billion in excess profits during the pandemic
ASOS and Serco were among six companies across finance, outsourcing, retail, real estate, mining and pharmaceuticals who made £16 billion in excess profits during the pandemic. Our new report “Pandemic …
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No trickle-down: Tax cuts for rich fuel inequality, study finds
Tax cuts for rich people breed inequality without providing much of a boon to anyone else, according to a study of the advanced world that could add to the case …
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Tax in the time of coronavirus
More tax reform is needed to repair the economic damage Covid-19 will wreak. But tax hikes are not the way forward. Richard Murphy explains. We can only hope the worst …
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The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
From Publisher: America’s runaway inequality has an engine: our unjust tax system. Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have had their taxes collapse to levels last seen in …
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